Exclusive: Experts say changes to Grand Mosque of Shadian mark completion of five-year sinification campaign
  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    1 month ago

    Those two are the same place? Looks like it was entirely destroyed and rebuilt as something else, I’m seeing very little similarly between the two.

    • anguo@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      They basically added a couple of floors to hide the dome. Looks like the spires got shorter though.

      • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I do really wonder if the dome is still hiding inside there. It looks like it might be big enough and that sounds like it would be the easy solution.

        • anguo@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          AFAIK these domes are beautiful on the inside, I would assume they kept it, but we’re talking cultural revolution levels of narrow mindedness here, so who knows?

          Edit: from the satellite imagery I’d say its gone.