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Xiaozhai Mosque

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📍 Mile · Pengpu Town (Xiaozhai Village) 🏛️ Qing dynasty (17th-19th century) 👥 small village congregation; exact capacity not documented

📜 About & history

Xiaozhai Mosque is a Qing-dynasty mosque in Xiaozhai Village, Pengpu Town, on the outskirts of Mile City. It is one of several historic mosques serving Hui Muslim communities scattered across Mile (alongside others such as Zhuyuan Old Mosque), and is listed as a municipal-level protected cultural heritage site by the Mile city government.

🕌 Prayer & visiting

TraditionSunni Islam (Hui Chinese Muslim community, Hanafi tradition)

Functions as the local Hui Muslim community's neighborhood mosque, open for the five daily prayers and Friday jumu'ah; it is a working village mosque without organized facilities for tourist visits.

📍 Address

Xiaozhai Village, Pengpu Town, Mile City, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China
Address in Chinese (for taxis): 云南省红河哈尼族彝族自治州弥勒市朋普镇小寨村

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🚇 How to reach the mosque

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Bus

Reachable from Mile city center by local bus toward Pengpu Town, followed by a short taxi ride to Xiaozhai Village.

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From the Arab districts

There is no Arab expatriate district in Mile; halal food is available at a handful of Hui-run noodle and beef restaurants in the city center.

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From downtown

About 30-40 minutes by car from central Mile City to Xiaozhai Village.

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Useful tip

A modest, little-documented village mosque; best visited with local guidance and treated respectfully as an active place of worship.