Entrance to the mosque, Peking, Bowra collection, Bo01-056.
To mark the Islamic New Year, here is part of a rare photograph of the entrance to the Huihuiying Mosque [回回营清真寺遗存], in Donganfu Hutong, near Beihai Park, Beijing, taken about 1870. The image shown above, is a cropped version to better show the architecture. Parts of the Qing Dynasty building still exist
The photograph (Bo01-056) is from one of two superb Bowra albums, which are held in the archives of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London (RSAA reference RSAA/SC/BOW/1).