La mosquée chinoise : support d’identités  et  de modernités

Abstract

With the 1980s reforms, Islam in China recovered its vital spaces for religious practice and expression. These past twenty years have been marked by the restoration and construction of mosques. Officially there are 40,000 mosques throughout the country, half of which are in China proper. Traditional mosques in pagoda style have disappeared slowly, replaced by a new Middle Eastern styled architecture representing the idea of “modernity”. As identity markers, Chinese mosques illustrate the social status of a community. They are also places of competition between religious trends.

Keywords

• Religious architecture
• religious pratices
• multi ethnicity