Phoenix Mosque
One of the oldest mosques in southern China, rebuilt over centuries but with roots deep in the Song-Yuan era. Between West Lake and the old city — the most convenient mosque for visitors in the whole delta.
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport (HGH) is one of the Yangtze Delta's principal aviation hubs. The city has been called paradise on earth since the Song dynasty — and the historic Phoenix Mosque stands a short walk from West Lake.
Marco Polo called Hangzhou the finest and most splendid city in the world, and people still argue he was not wrong. The whole city is built around West Lake, a freshwater lake of causeways, pagodas and willow banks that Chinese poetry has been describing for a thousand years. It works beautifully at Muslim pace: flat walking, shaded paths, tea houses everywhere you would want one.
The Phoenix Mosque — Fenghuang Si — is one of China's oldest surviving mosques, rebuilt several times but rooted in the Song and Yuan eras, and it sits between the lake and the old city. The Hui halal restaurants cluster around it, and Hangzhou is also your base for some of the best tea in China: Longjing grows in the hills immediately west of the lake.
One of the principal aviation hubs of the Yangtze River Delta, serving international routes across East and Southeast Asia plus heavy domestic traffic.
Terminal 2 handles most international services; Terminal 4 is the newest and largest. Metro Line 1 and 7 connect to the city.
40–60 minutes by car to West Lake depending on traffic, or about 30 minutes into town by metro. We normally route via Shanghai PVG as well — the two cities are only an hour apart by road.
Tell us your landing time and we route you past a mosque or straight to your first certified halal meal. No waiting, no guessing, no pork kitchens.
Every place below is a certified halal restaurant with no pork and no alcohol on the premises. We confirm each booking before you fly and send the list with addresses to your WhatsApp.
Your guide carries a prayer-time sheet calculated for your exact dates, and hotels are checked for qibla direction before you arrive.
One of the oldest mosques in southern China, rebuilt over centuries but with roots deep in the Song-Yuan era. Between West Lake and the old city — the most convenient mosque for visitors in the whole delta.
Smaller mosques in Binjiang and Yuhang serve the wider commuting population; your guide checks access.
The whole reason to come. Walk the Su Causeway, take a boat to the island pagodas, watch the light change over the water.
A major Buddhist monastery in forested hills west of the lake, with cliff-carved Buddhist sculptures.
The home of Dragon Well green tea. Rolling terraces, tastings, and a very calm afternoon.
A reconstructed Song-dynasty street — medicine shops, tea houses, crafts.
Canals and reed beds on the city's western edge; excellent for birdlife and quiet.
The northern end of the world's greatest artificial waterway, still working.
A working skeleton, not a fixed package — we rebuild it around your dates, your prayer needs and whoever is travelling with you.
HGH pickup or rail from Shanghai, Dhuhr at Phoenix Mosque, West Lake evening walk.
Boat on West Lake, Lingyin Temple, tea village lunch, Hefang Street at dusk.
Xixi Wetland or the Grand Canal, then onward to Suzhou or Shanghai.
Hangzhou is humid subtropical like Shanghai: hot muggy summers, mild springs and autumns, damp cold winters that occasionally bring snow on the West Lake causeways — famously photogenic. March to May for blossom, October to November for clear light. The summer plum rain in June is relentless.
Send us your dates and who is travelling. A Muslim advisor replies within one hour during China working hours with a day-by-day halal itinerary for Hangzhou — restaurants, mosques, prayer times, hotels and an itemised price.