Dungan Mosque, Karakol - Islam in Central Asia (sitios de interés)
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Oddly, the architecture seen at this mosque is more related to the pagoda style seen in Eastern China than the mosques of Xinjiang. It is possible that the political differences between East Turkestan and China have caused the Uyghurs to distance themselves artistically from the Chinese by making their mosques, a central part of their difference from the Han Chinese, radically foreign-looking. Outside of Xinjiang, the Dungan may not have so strongly rejected their previous interactions with Chinese culture.