Quran blocks
Since 1900.
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One of Kunming's best-known and oldest mosques, in the old city centre, attended by the many Hui Muslims of Yunnan, who have lived in the province for centuries; it's among the most important centres of Muslim life in southwest China. The mosque keeps a rare treasure: the wooden printing blocks of the Holy Quran, whose text the scholar Tian Jiapei wrote out by hand between 1895 and 1900 at the urging of his teacher Ma Lianyuan, one of Yunnan's foremost Muslim scholars, who championed printing the Quran and teaching Arabic alongside Chinese. Next to the mosque runs Shuncheng Street, Kunming's best-known halal food quarter, with Hui restaurants serving beef, mutton, hand-pulled noodles, breads and sweets, and shops selling halal goods. The mosque is open to worshippers; non-Muslim visitors should dress modestly and avoid prayer times. Wandering Shuncheng Street is free, and it's liveliest at lunchtime and in the evening.
Since 1900.
Hui halal food.
Fresh daily.
Zhengyi Road, Wuhua District, central Kunming
On Shuncheng Street beside the Nancheng Mosque in the city centre, Kunming's best-known halal quarter, with Hui restaurants serving beef, mutton and hand-pulled noodles.
