Shangmeilin Mosque Shenzhen Guide

Shenzhen is considered a relatively young and modern city in China, located in the South of China. Due to Deng Xiaoping’s Open Door Policy many people migrated to Shenzhen and this included many Muslims. It is estimated that the majority of Muslims in Shenzhen are from the Hui group. But as a newly emerging immigrant city there are many other ethnic Muslims in the city such as Uyghurs, Kazaks and Dongxiang people. There are also Muslims from Arab countries, southeast Asia, India, Pakistan and Africa. There is only one mosque in Shenzhen which is the Meilin mosque.
Shenzhen Meilin Mosque

The shangmeilin mosque Shenzhen is the only mosque in Shenzhen. It has a small garden and can be seen with its two mosaic covered minarets. A prayer hall and office are located within the compound.

Contact Information
Address, No. 7, Meilin East Road, Shenzhen
Location, In the city center area

It is known that the Shenzhen new mosque is a big event in the Muslim life of China in 2014. The new mosque will cover an area of over 6000 square meters, with a total cost of nearly 50 million yuan, the state allocated 30 million fund, Shenzhen Muslim donations, foreign Muslim donations have been credited into account 13 million, the Muslims donations are constantly continuing. Currently there are nearly 800 million funding gap still needs to solve, which need to continue to focus on for the majority of Muslim people. After the construction of the new temple, the construction area will be over 10,000 square meters, five-storey, one basement, the hall can accommodate more than 5,000 people collective worship, which will become a beautiful landscape of religious and cultural construction of Shenzhen.

On April 25th morning in 2014, Shenzhen mosque held a grand commencement ceremony at the origin site (opposite the Merlin Vehicle). The ceremony was host by Wei Dazhi who is the President of Shenzhen Islamic Association. Wang Wenjie the president of the Islamic Association of Guangdong Province, Zhang Siping the Standing Municipal Committee Minister of Shenzhen City, and other leaders of the United Front Departments have delivered important speeches.

Ethnic Affairs Commission of Guangdong Province, Shenzhen Municipal Committee, United Front Work Department of Shenzhen city, City Public Works Department of Shenzhen, the public complaints bureau of Shenzhen, Futian District United Front Work Department, Futian District Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau and leaderships of other Districts of Shenzhen also shown up to congratulated.

Islamic Association of Guangdong Province, the Islamic Association of Guangzhou City, Islamic Association leaderships of Zhaoqing, Zhuhai and Dongguan, shown up to congratulated. Yang xingben leaded more than 20 people, including Hong Kong Federation of Islam from the Hong Kong Federation of Women in Islam, Islam and Fraternal Association of Hong Kong, to come to congratulate the commencement ceremony of Shenzhen mosque.

According to the Su shengliang's words, the Muslim community in Hong Kong have held several donations for Shenzhen mosque recent years, which gives strong support to Shenzhen mosque's construction and development.