Cangzhou District Hui Mosque Architecture Research

The world’s three major religions, including Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, as one of the important part, Islam has a huge religious groups. In China, there are 10 minority Muslims Uygur, Hui, Kazak, Uzbek, Dongxiang, Tajik, of which the largest number of Muslim, about the Islamic nation percent of the total number fifty.The Hui nationality is an emerging nation in China, it fully learn the essence of Chinese culture and Islamic culture, has a strong vitality, Chinese culture into the fresh blood.Cangzhou is the most massive scale Muslim ghettos. Muslim mosque construction as a national representative, in terms of function, form and content have valuable research value. The mosque building study, contribute to the inheritance and development of the nation’s outstanding traditional culture, and to carry forward the spirit of the nation to play a positive role.In this paper, the local representative of Mosque as the main object of study, field research by a large number of real photo shoot, draw a certain amount of analysis chart. This study mainly from two aspects of theory and practice, is divided into six sections.The first part of the preface. Analysis of the research background to explain the purpose and significance of the study subjects, the study summarized the status quo, pointing out some of the problems that exist in research status, proposed research methods and research.The second part, from the origin, development and philosophy as well as other aspects of Muslim culture to start, and then describes the Muslim mosque building was conceived in China, the formation and development.Third, fourth, fifth, expand the appropriate research generated from the mosque construction, function, space, layout, composition and decoration, etc., and for the territory of larger scale and representative examples of analysis of the mosque buildings. Access to information through field research and literature review, etc., will summarize the outcome.The sixth part, to explore the principles and methods of protection and put forward for the mosque architecture based on the future development of Mosque Architecture — keep the essence of the national culture and adapt with the environment, using the established religion has the soul of traditional mosque architecture technology improved, so as to contribute to the development and prosperity of the national culture.