Women's mosques
Women Mosques (Chinese清真 女 寺, Pinyin Qingzhen nǚsì, in short:女 寺, nǚsì, English Women's mosques, French Mosquées féminines ) in China have a history of over three hundred years. Especially numerous are in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Shanxi and Hebei.
It is set up by the Islamic community especially for Women mosques. In contrast, it is not common in the Islamic world outside of China that there are separate mosques by gender. There, men and women perform their worship together in a mosque, while nonetheless using separate washing and prayer rooms. End of the Ming and early Qing Dynasty Chinese women had begun to set up their own mosques.
The Muslim community had previously started from religious considerations, increasingly educate women theologically. As a result, a portion of the female Muslims who had experienced a religious education, and increasing participation in daily religious activities and it went from later the creation of women's mosques forth.
Since the 20th century there are separate places of worship as mosques woman, that is, as a special form of the sacred building, attached as either creating their own mosque or to an already existing larger mosque. Your managers are women, wives of Akhunds ( " Imam " ) of a larger mosque or other. The title commonly used for them is Shiniang (Chinese师娘, Pinyin shiniang ).
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Woman mosques in China
- Beidajie Nüsi, Zhengzhou ( Henan)
- Beixiajie Nüsi, Zhengzhou
- Minzhulu Nüsi, Zhengzhou
- Xishilipu Nüsi, Zhengzhou
- Jiangfanglu Nüsi, Xi'an ( Shaanxi )
- Qian Xinchengdao Nüsi ( Hohhot Nüsi ), Hohhot (Inner Mongolia )
- Hexi Nüsi, Zhoukou (Henan)
- Tiedanjie Nüsi Kaifeng (Henan)
- Woman mosque of Beijing (Women's mosque, Japanese )
- Woman mosque of Shanghai (web)
Woman mosques outside of China
Asia
Africa
- Khartoum, Sudan
- Gabiley, northern Somalia