China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and The entrance and minaret of the Weichow mosque. In this city of ten thousand this one mosque ministers to all branches of Islam and shows a united front that even the Communist army of 1936 could not shake. This mosque is one of the most beautiful in all of China.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and In bandit-ridden areas the mosque must protect itself. This is one outside the South Gate of Yu Wang, Ningsia, not only had this small fort but also local Moslem militia to protect it. During the summer and fall of 1936 the Communist held the city; one wonders what happened to the mosque.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Box 333 | Folder 2
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and This is the second type of mosque commonly seen on the fertile plain along the Yellow River in Ningsia. Note the new popular trees planted along the road, a common sight in the Northwest in the spring of 1936.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and The oldest mosque in Changan (Sian) Shensi, the capital of the T'ang Dynasty (618-934) when Islam first came to China. Some of Chinese Islam's greatest sons have been instrumental in reparing this ancient building.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and This ornate box for carrying the Koran in front of the bier at a funeral is part of the equipment of the Great Eastern Mosque, Changan. Two janazahs or coffins in which the body is carried as far as the grave can be seen one above the other behind the tablet.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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A portable goat skin raft which is used in the water down stream and carried on the back of a man upstream. Many such small rafts are fastened together to make one of the hundred skins or more to transport large cargo or a number of people to cities down the Yellow River. and Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and The province of Ningsia has two distinct types of architecture among its many mosques. Here is a good example of the curved roof minaret of one near Kinkihsien. There is a much sharper curve to the roof here than one finds in Eastern China.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Do not divide the Moslems and Chinese is the slogan on this gate of Hao Tien, Kansu. Through this gate most of the traffic between China proper and the Northwest, including Sinkiang, must pass. The old Silk Road between Cathay and Stamboul passed through and halted while it got strength to climb the famous Liu P'an Mountians ahead.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Water gate of the city of Kaolan (Lanchow) Kansu, looking up the Yellow river. The American-built iron bridge in the background was carried on the backs of camels from Tientsin. A goat skin raft is tied to the bank in the middle foreground.
China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
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Also included in the International Mission Photography Archive. and Three of the more than eighty student ahungs (mullahs) from all over the Northwest and even from the coastal provinces who study at this main mosque of Sining. The round caps immediately distinguish a Moslem from a Chinese, or as is commonly said, the Hsiao Chiao from the Ta Chiao."
