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Santunbei Mosque

三屯碑清真寺
📍 Urumqi · Tianshan District 🏛️ — 👥 approx 700 worshippers at Friday prayers (per 2012 records)

📜 About & history

Santunbei Mosque is a neighborhood mosque in the Shengli Road area of Tianshan District, central Ürümqi. As of 2012, Shengli Road subdistrict had four registered religious venues -- three mosques and one Russian Orthodox church -- with roughly 3,100 worshippers attending Friday prayers across the district's mosques each week, including around 700 at Santunbei Mosque. It stands alongside the nearby Erdaoqiao, Yanghang and Shaanxi Grand Mosques as one of the historic neighborhood mosques anchoring Muslim community life in this part of the city.

🕌 Prayer & visiting

TraditionSunni (Hanafi)

Open for the five daily prayers, with the main Friday Jumu'ah gathering around midday; ablution (wudu) facilities are on site. Modest dress is requested, and non-Muslim visitors are welcome outside prayer times.

📍 Address

Shengli Road Subdistrict, Tianshan District, Ürümqi, Xinjiang
Address in Chinese (for taxis): 新疆维吾尔自治区乌鲁木齐市天山区胜利路街道

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🚇 How to reach the mosque

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Bus

Several city buses serve the Shengli Road area of Tianshan District.

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From downtown

About 10-15 minutes by taxi from Ürümqi's central People's Square area.

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Useful tip

Close to several other historic mosques in central Ürümqi. Taxi phrase: 请带我去三屯碑清真寺