Jingjue Mosque
One of the oldest mosques in Jiangsu, rebuilt in the Ming period and still at the heart of the city's Hui quarter.
Jingjue Mosque, a 600-year-old Hui quarter inside the Ming city wall, the Confucius temple quarter and halal salted duck. Nanjing was the Ming capital and one of the great centres of Chinese Islam, and almost none of that history is signposted — which is what your guide is for.
Jingjue Mosque, a 600-year-old Hui quarter inside the Ming city wall, the Confucius temple quarter and halal salted duck. Nanjing was the Ming capital and one of the great centres of Chinese Islam, and almost none of that history is signposted — which is what your guide is for.
The halal guarantee on this route: every restaurant is a certified halal restaurant with no pork and no alcohol on the premises. We send the full list with addresses before you fly, and your guide re-checks each booking the day before you eat there.
One of the oldest mosques in Jiangsu, rebuilt in the Ming period and still at the heart of the city's Hui quarter.
A living neighbourhood of halal butchers, bakeries and noodle houses that has been Muslim for six centuries.
The city's signature dish, made in halal kitchens — a genuinely local speciality most visitors never find.
The longest surviving city wall in the world, walkable in sections with the modern city on one side and old Nanjing on the other.
The lantern-lit river quarter, best in the early evening.
Both within an hour by train, both with their own Muslim history.
A working skeleton, not a fixed package — we rebuild it around your dates, your prayer needs and whoever is travelling with you.
Halal transfer from NKG. Asr at Jingjue Mosque, then dinner in the Hui quarter: halal salted duck and hand-pulled noodles.
Morning on the city wall, afternoon in the Confucius temple quarter, evening on the river when the lanterns come on.
Either the Nanjing Museum and the Ming tombs, or an hour by train to Suzhou for the classical gardens.
A slow morning in the Hui market, prayer, then a transfer to NKG or the train to Shanghai or Hangzhou.
Jingjue Mosque holds all five prayers, and the surrounding Hui quarter has smaller prayer rooms and halal shops on nearly every street. Nanjing is compact, so a prayer stop rarely costs more than ten minutes.
March to May and September to November. Nanjing is one of China's hot cities in summer and can be damp and cold in January.
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 plan for this route — restaurants, mosques, prayer times, hotels and an itemised price.