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There are 20k mosques in Xinjiang

Jan 12, 20261 min read

  • country/China/xinjiang--unanswered
  • Speaking of “24,400 existing mosques in Xinjiang” 从“新疆现有清真寺2.44万座”说起

    • https://archive.md/gzITg
    • https://www.miaosong.cn/zongjiao/306887.html
  • Cultural erasure - Tracing the destruction of Uyghur and Islamic spaces in Xinjiang says

    The data from the 2004 Economic Census provided addresses for each of the nearly 24,000 mosque sites in Xinjiang;102 however, in many cases, the addresses are imprecise and couldn’t be clearly associated with physical buildings visible in the satellite imagery. Therefore, we used a combination of two different methods.

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  • Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang, China
    Refuting Counter-ArgumentsThere are 20k mosques in Xinjiang

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