{"id":64394,"date":"2024-05-25T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/25\/shadian-last-major-islamic-style-mosque-in-china-loses-its-domes"},"modified":"2024-05-25T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T04:00:15","slug":"last-major-islamic-style-mosque-in-china-loses-its-domes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64394","title":{"rendered":"Last major Islamic-style mosque in China loses its domes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Experts say changes to Grand Mosque of Shadian mark completion of five-year sinification campaign<\/p>\n<p>The last major mosque in China to have retained Islamic-style features has lost its domes and had its minarets radically modified, marking what experts say is the completion of a government campaign to sinicise the country\u2019s Muslim places of worship.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Mosque of Shadian, one of China\u2019s biggest and grandest mosques, towers over the small town from which it takes its name in south-western Yunnan province.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/25\/shadian-last-major-islamic-style-mosque-in-china-loses-its-domes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Experts say changes to Grand Mosque of Shadian mark completion of five-year sinification campaignThe last major mosque in China to have retained Islamic-style features has lost its domes and had its minarets radically modified, marking what &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,447,371,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-islam","category-religion","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64405,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64394\/revisions\/64405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}