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The core area of this district is along the street Niujie. [1] The Niujie core area, a Hui people neighborhood, [5] has Beijing's largest concentration of Muslim people. [2] As of 2013 there is a Muslim-oriented hospital as well as social services, cafés, shops, restaurants, and schools catering to the Muslim population. [6]
Xi'an Muslim Quarter. The Xi'an Muslim Quarter (Chinese: 西安回民街) is a snack and commercial street situated in the center part of Xi'an, China. It is close to the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower. Shehui Road is to the east, Zaoci Lane to the west, West Avenue to the south, and Hongfu Street to the north. [1] There are ten mosques in the area.
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The 1982 census stated that 184,693 people in Beijing were Hui, making up around 2% of Beijing's total population and 57% of the population classified as ethnic minority. Village and Family in Contemporary China , a 1980 study by William L. Parish and Martin K. Whyte, stated that there were 16,000 Muslims in Beijing.
The Niujie Mosque, the largest of all the mosques in Beijing, [1] was first built in 996 during the Liao dynasty (916–1125). [5] [2] The local Muslim community constructed the mosque using traditional Chinese architecture, with the exception that it displays Arabic calligraphy in the interior.
While Uighurs, like the Hui, are Muslim, the Uighurs in Beijing had migrated there more recently than the Hui. Wenfei Wang, Shangyi Zhou, and C. Cindy Fan, authors of "Growth and Decline of Muslim Hui Enclaves in Beijing," stated that the Beijing Uighur communities are "much smaller in size" compared to Hui communities. [2]
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