Last major Arabic-style mosque in China loses its domes
Last major Arabic-style mosque in China loses its domes
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Those two are the same place? Looks like it was entirely destroyed and rebuilt as something else, I'm seeing very little similarly between the two.
19 0 ReplyThey basically added a couple of floors to hide the dome. Looks like the spires got shorter though.
3 0 ReplyI do really wonder if the dome is still hiding inside there. It looks like it might be big enough and that sounds like it would be the easy solution.
1 0 ReplyAFAIK these domes are beautiful on the inside, I would assume they kept it, but we're talking cultural revolution levels of narrow mindedness here, so who knows?
Edit: from the satellite imagery I'd say its gone.
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