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Title
Roof of mosque, Ningxia Huizu Zizhiqu, China, 1936
Creator
Pickens, Claude L
Date Created and/or Issued
1936
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
The province of Ningsia has two distinct types of architecture among its many mosques. Here is a good example of the curved roof minaret of one near Kinkihsien. There is a much sharper curve to the roof here than one finds in Eastern China.
Type
image
Format
photographic prints, 8 x 11.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m3021 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0002-0034
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m3021
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG008-333-0002-0034.jpg
Subject
Moslems
Mosques
Exterior views
Time Period
1936
Place
China
Ningsia
Source
YDS/RG008/333/0002/0034 [File]
Relation
Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Papers; China Records Project Miscellaneous Personal Papers Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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