There are 20k mosques in Xinjiang
Speaking of “24,400 existing mosques in Xinjiang” 从“新疆现有清真寺2.44万座”说起
1639318712 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; however, in many cases, the addresses are imprecise and couldn’t be clearly associated with physical buildings visible in the satellite imagery.