Dongsi Mosque
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The Dongsi Mosque in Beijing was built more than 500 years ago in the Ming Dynasty. It is a structure combining Chinese and Arabic styles like the Niujie Mosque. Now it is the centre for Chinese and foreign Muslims in Beijing. Besides its daily services, marriage and funeral services are also held here. It is also the headquarters of the Beijing Branch of the Chinese Islamic Association.
The mosque's library houses valuable manuscripts of the Koran, the Hadith, Islamic law and other works of Islamic philosophy, history and literature published in Egypt, India, Turkey and Pakistan. The oldest manuscript of the Koran is nearly 700 years old.
