Memet Juma proudly wears two hats: in Beijing, he sits as a national legislator in the meeting hall, while in Xinjiang, he preaches as a khatib at Id Kah Mosque. Find out about the decade of changes ...

KASHGAR, China--Tursunjan Mamat ... “There is no such thing as mosque demolition,” Juma said, other than some rundown mosques taken down for safety renovations. Kashgar has been largely ...

Three imperial Chinese dynasties conquered and reconquered Kashgar and its environs. Still, its mosques and madrassahs drew scholars from all over Central Asia. Its caravansaries, or inns ...

KASHGAR, China--At a domed building here in early October, the Islamic crescent symbol that indicated it had been a mosque had been removed. The interior of the building had also been radically ...