NPR

The plan to remove a mosque's domes in China sparks rare protest

Hundreds of people gathered outside a mosque in southwestern China. They were protesting the planned removal of the mosque's domes, part of a nationwide campaign to eliminate Islamic influences. China ...
WSLS 10

China is expanding its crackdown on mosques to regions outside Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch says

The Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to regions other than Xinjiang, where for years it has been blamed for persecuting Muslim minorities, according to a Human Rights ...
KBIA

China is removing domes from mosques as part of a push to make them more 'Chinese'

XINING, China — The Dongguan Mosque has adopted some very different looks in its nearly 700 years in China's northwestern city of Xining. Built in the style of a Chinese imperial palace, with tiled ...
LAist

In An Attempt To Sinify China, Authorities Are Removing Domes From Mosques

Chinese authorities are removing the dome roofs from thousands of mosques across that country. They say the domes are evidence of Arab influence. It's part of a push to sinify ethnic groups - as in, ...
Wall Street Journal

China Razed Thousands of Xinjiang Mosques in Assimilation Push, Report Says

After locking up as many as a million people in camps in Xinjiang, Chinese authorities are destroying Uighur neighborhoods and purging the region's culture. They say they’re fighting terrorism. Their ...
Houston Public Media

China is removing domes from mosques as part of a push to make them more 'Chinese'

The Dongguan Great Mosque in Xining, China, photographed in 2018. Its main green dome and minaret domes have since been removed. (Zhang Peng | LightRocket via Getty Images) XINING, China — The ...