Wikipedia's article on Quanzhou says that the Qingjing mosque dates to 1009 and that it is now kept as a museum.
We could not fetch the mosque's own page (blocked). By our recollection its Arabic foundation inscription is dated to the year 400 of the Hijra (1009 to 1010), and what stands today is largely the work of the 1310s and later; if that is right, the building of 1200 is the earlier mosque, not the gate and walls a visitor sees. The mosque stands in the south of the city by the river, in the foreign quarter.
We found no source for its imam, endowments or relations with the Superintendency.
Who holds it
- Title
- Imam of the mosque, under the foreign headman as its patron
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Not known. A later head of the Quanzhou Muslims, Pu Shougeng, belongs to the last years of the Song and is not for this date.
Overlord
The foreign headman under the Quanzhou Superintendent of Maritime Trade and the prefect
What it holds
- The mosque and its ground
- Whatever endowments it held: not known
How it was acquired
1009 (Wikipedia, "Quanzhou").
Allies and rivals
The foreign merchants of the quarter; the Superintendent; the Zhao clan households, who invest in ships.
How things stand that morning
In use. Nothing is recorded for the winter.
Places of note
- The mosque: South of the old city, in the foreign quarter; position given to about a kilometre
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board has no Quanzhou (Fujian) place and so no board id covers this mosque. The "Director General of Shipping consistently a Muslim" statement on Wikipedia's Islam during the Song page is not supported by the other sources we read; we did not use it.
Evidence: Only the year 1009 is from a fetched page (a secondary note in the Quanzhou article). The inscription and the later rebuilding are recollection.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: A point only, inside the Quanzhou town record's land.
Primary sources for Southern Song
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
- Outline and Details of Two Reigns (thirteenth century, after 1224). A Song outline-and-detail chronicle of exactly the two reigns around 1200, drawn from the court's daily records. Read online
- Annals of the Western Xia, Wu Guangcheng (吳廣成) (1825 to 1827, compiled from Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's year-by-year reconstruction of Tangut history from the Chinese histories, since the Xia left no surviving annals of their own in Chinese. Read online
- History of the Song, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345, from the Song veritable records, state histories and the Huiyao). The official history of the Southern Song, which ruled from Lin'an (Hangzhou) in 1200. Read online
- History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Record of the Great Jin State, Attributed to Yuwen Maozhao (宇文懋昭); the attribution is doubtful (preface dated 1234; probably assembled in the Southern Song from Song and Jin material, with later accretions). A Song-side history of the Jin, with annals for each emperor and chapters on institutions, customs, the capitals and the Jurchen way of life. Read online
12 more in the sources library for South China.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.