The great Hui Temple

The great Hui Temple

Yining City Hui temple, formerly known as Ninggu temple, and Phoenix Temple, Jinding temple, Shaanxi temple, Shaanxi Gansu temple and other names. It is a famous temple in Yili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture. The temple was first built in 1760, and was added in 1781. It has a history of more than 200 years. It is said that when the temple was first built, the local yamen allowed the villagers to write "Yi tie" in the mainland, and hired architects from the pass to build this Chinese palace style mosque in the west gate of the border of the motherland. This is not only a religious cause, but also marks that Ili is an inseparable territory of the motherland.

Yining Hui temple is modeled on the huajuexiang mosque (national heritage protection unit) in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. It adopts typical Chinese traditional architecture and has Arabic Islamic style. In front of the temple, there are Mountain Gate, main gate, double eight character screen wall and gatehouse on both sides. The main building of the temple is the hall of worship. The structure of the hall Pavilion is neat, elegant and elegant, and the layout is exquisite. The hall of worship is divided into outer hall, middle hall and inner hall, with a total of 42 rooms, covering an area of more than 600 square meters. The three roofs of the main hall are connected structure. The shape of the inner hall is a four story octagonal pavilion building, and the interior is a dome structure. In this ancient temple, thousands of people attend every festival (Rouzi Festival, gurbang Festival, etc.).

Address: south side of Xinhua East Road, Yining City

Longitude: 81.33260345459

Latitude: 43.912456512451

Tel: 0999-8351663

Ticket information: market price: 30.0 yuan