Al_Noor Mosque
Muslim Travel Guide Vietnam Hanoi: Al-Noor Mosque, Wudu Area and Northern Vietnam Muslim Life
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Summary: This Muslim travel guide visits Al-Noor Mosque in Hanoi, the only operating mosque described in northern Vietnam. It keeps the original route, mosque details, wudu area, local Muslim notes, and nearby halal food context intact.
Most mosques in Vietnam are in the south. There is only one mosque currently operating in the north, which is the Al-Noor Mosque (Guangming Qingzhensi) I am introducing today.
Picture one shows the mosque entrance. It says Al-Noor, which is the Latin transliteration of the Arabic word for light. You can see from the Vietnamese text at the bottom that Vietnam still uses the term Hoi Giao for Islam.
Picture two shows the minaret of the mosque.
Pictures three and four show the mosque courtyard. A simple canopy covers it to keep it clean, and you must take off your shoes before entering. I guess they have to use the courtyard as a prayer hall because the mosque is quite small.
Pictures five, six, and seven show the inside of the prayer hall. The lighting is not very good, and you have to walk through the prayer hall to reach the area for wudu. Overall, the conditions are not great.
Picture eight shows some religious materials placed at the entrance of the prayer hall. I met the imam here. He is a Cham person, which is an ethnic minority in Vietnam. His hometown is in a village in southern Vietnam. He is young and very kind.
I asked him if there were any Kinh (the main ethnic group in Vietnam) Muslims, and he said one or two Kinh people convert to Islam every month.
Later, I actually met a Kinh Muslim. He came over to greet me, and during our conversation, I could see he was very passionate about his faith. He disappeared for a moment, but when I saw him again, he was carrying some pastries, and a mother and daughter were standing at the door.
It turned out the mother and daughter were there to learn about Islam. The young Kinh man had gone to buy them pastries so they could sit down, eat, and talk.
In photos nine through thirteen, it was time to eat. There are quite a few halal restaurants around the mosque; I thought there would only be one or two before I arrived.
In photo fourteen, the young man treated me to Vietnamese rice noodle soup (pho), which was duck flavored and included bamboo shoots. He asked me if people in China also eat bamboo shoots, and I said of course.
In photos fifteen and sixteen, the next day I ate another Vietnamese specialty across from the mosque: a baguette sandwich (banh mi). You take the baguette brought by the former colonists, slice it open, and fill it with eggs, sausage, vegetables, or grilled meat skewers to finish the snack.
The baguette is very chewy, but it is not very filling, so one is not enough to satisfy your hunger.
In photo seventeen, I should mention the political posters I saw around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. You can see these posters on every street, much like we used to have back home.
The difference is that the Vietnamese posters actually feature Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, which is a point of similarity yet a difference from what we see in China.
After that, I went to southern Vietnam. Please look forward to hearing about what I saw there. view all
Summary: This Muslim travel guide visits Al-Noor Mosque in Hanoi, the only operating mosque described in northern Vietnam. It keeps the original route, mosque details, wudu area, local Muslim notes, and nearby halal food context intact.
Most mosques in Vietnam are in the south. There is only one mosque currently operating in the north, which is the Al-Noor Mosque (Guangming Qingzhensi) I am introducing today.
Picture one shows the mosque entrance. It says Al-Noor, which is the Latin transliteration of the Arabic word for light. You can see from the Vietnamese text at the bottom that Vietnam still uses the term Hoi Giao for Islam.
Picture two shows the minaret of the mosque.
Pictures three and four show the mosque courtyard. A simple canopy covers it to keep it clean, and you must take off your shoes before entering. I guess they have to use the courtyard as a prayer hall because the mosque is quite small.
Pictures five, six, and seven show the inside of the prayer hall. The lighting is not very good, and you have to walk through the prayer hall to reach the area for wudu. Overall, the conditions are not great.
Picture eight shows some religious materials placed at the entrance of the prayer hall. I met the imam here. He is a Cham person, which is an ethnic minority in Vietnam. His hometown is in a village in southern Vietnam. He is young and very kind.
I asked him if there were any Kinh (the main ethnic group in Vietnam) Muslims, and he said one or two Kinh people convert to Islam every month.
Later, I actually met a Kinh Muslim. He came over to greet me, and during our conversation, I could see he was very passionate about his faith. He disappeared for a moment, but when I saw him again, he was carrying some pastries, and a mother and daughter were standing at the door.
It turned out the mother and daughter were there to learn about Islam. The young Kinh man had gone to buy them pastries so they could sit down, eat, and talk.
In photos nine through thirteen, it was time to eat. There are quite a few halal restaurants around the mosque; I thought there would only be one or two before I arrived.
In photo fourteen, the young man treated me to Vietnamese rice noodle soup (pho), which was duck flavored and included bamboo shoots. He asked me if people in China also eat bamboo shoots, and I said of course.
In photos fifteen and sixteen, the next day I ate another Vietnamese specialty across from the mosque: a baguette sandwich (banh mi). You take the baguette brought by the former colonists, slice it open, and fill it with eggs, sausage, vegetables, or grilled meat skewers to finish the snack.
The baguette is very chewy, but it is not very filling, so one is not enough to satisfy your hunger.
In photo seventeen, I should mention the political posters I saw around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. You can see these posters on every street, much like we used to have back home.
The difference is that the Vietnamese posters actually feature Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, which is a point of similarity yet a difference from what we see in China.
After that, I went to southern Vietnam. Please look forward to hearing about what I saw there. view all
Reposted from the web
Summary: This Muslim travel guide visits Al-Noor Mosque in Hanoi, the only operating mosque described in northern Vietnam. It keeps the original route, mosque details, wudu area, local Muslim notes, and nearby halal food context intact.
Most mosques in Vietnam are in the south. There is only one mosque currently operating in the north, which is the Al-Noor Mosque (Guangming Qingzhensi) I am introducing today.
Picture one shows the mosque entrance. It says Al-Noor, which is the Latin transliteration of the Arabic word for light. You can see from the Vietnamese text at the bottom that Vietnam still uses the term Hoi Giao for Islam.
Picture two shows the minaret of the mosque.
Pictures three and four show the mosque courtyard. A simple canopy covers it to keep it clean, and you must take off your shoes before entering. I guess they have to use the courtyard as a prayer hall because the mosque is quite small.
Pictures five, six, and seven show the inside of the prayer hall. The lighting is not very good, and you have to walk through the prayer hall to reach the area for wudu. Overall, the conditions are not great.
Picture eight shows some religious materials placed at the entrance of the prayer hall. I met the imam here. He is a Cham person, which is an ethnic minority in Vietnam. His hometown is in a village in southern Vietnam. He is young and very kind.
I asked him if there were any Kinh (the main ethnic group in Vietnam) Muslims, and he said one or two Kinh people convert to Islam every month.
Later, I actually met a Kinh Muslim. He came over to greet me, and during our conversation, I could see he was very passionate about his faith. He disappeared for a moment, but when I saw him again, he was carrying some pastries, and a mother and daughter were standing at the door.
It turned out the mother and daughter were there to learn about Islam. The young Kinh man had gone to buy them pastries so they could sit down, eat, and talk.
In photos nine through thirteen, it was time to eat. There are quite a few halal restaurants around the mosque; I thought there would only be one or two before I arrived.
In photo fourteen, the young man treated me to Vietnamese rice noodle soup (pho), which was duck flavored and included bamboo shoots. He asked me if people in China also eat bamboo shoots, and I said of course.
In photos fifteen and sixteen, the next day I ate another Vietnamese specialty across from the mosque: a baguette sandwich (banh mi). You take the baguette brought by the former colonists, slice it open, and fill it with eggs, sausage, vegetables, or grilled meat skewers to finish the snack.
The baguette is very chewy, but it is not very filling, so one is not enough to satisfy your hunger.
In photo seventeen, I should mention the political posters I saw around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. You can see these posters on every street, much like we used to have back home.
The difference is that the Vietnamese posters actually feature Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, which is a point of similarity yet a difference from what we see in China.
After that, I went to southern Vietnam. Please look forward to hearing about what I saw there.
Summary: This Muslim travel guide visits Al-Noor Mosque in Hanoi, the only operating mosque described in northern Vietnam. It keeps the original route, mosque details, wudu area, local Muslim notes, and nearby halal food context intact.
Most mosques in Vietnam are in the south. There is only one mosque currently operating in the north, which is the Al-Noor Mosque (Guangming Qingzhensi) I am introducing today.
Picture one shows the mosque entrance. It says Al-Noor, which is the Latin transliteration of the Arabic word for light. You can see from the Vietnamese text at the bottom that Vietnam still uses the term Hoi Giao for Islam.
Picture two shows the minaret of the mosque.
Pictures three and four show the mosque courtyard. A simple canopy covers it to keep it clean, and you must take off your shoes before entering. I guess they have to use the courtyard as a prayer hall because the mosque is quite small.
Pictures five, six, and seven show the inside of the prayer hall. The lighting is not very good, and you have to walk through the prayer hall to reach the area for wudu. Overall, the conditions are not great.
Picture eight shows some religious materials placed at the entrance of the prayer hall. I met the imam here. He is a Cham person, which is an ethnic minority in Vietnam. His hometown is in a village in southern Vietnam. He is young and very kind.
I asked him if there were any Kinh (the main ethnic group in Vietnam) Muslims, and he said one or two Kinh people convert to Islam every month.
Later, I actually met a Kinh Muslim. He came over to greet me, and during our conversation, I could see he was very passionate about his faith. He disappeared for a moment, but when I saw him again, he was carrying some pastries, and a mother and daughter were standing at the door.
It turned out the mother and daughter were there to learn about Islam. The young Kinh man had gone to buy them pastries so they could sit down, eat, and talk.
In photos nine through thirteen, it was time to eat. There are quite a few halal restaurants around the mosque; I thought there would only be one or two before I arrived.
In photo fourteen, the young man treated me to Vietnamese rice noodle soup (pho), which was duck flavored and included bamboo shoots. He asked me if people in China also eat bamboo shoots, and I said of course.
In photos fifteen and sixteen, the next day I ate another Vietnamese specialty across from the mosque: a baguette sandwich (banh mi). You take the baguette brought by the former colonists, slice it open, and fill it with eggs, sausage, vegetables, or grilled meat skewers to finish the snack.
The baguette is very chewy, but it is not very filling, so one is not enough to satisfy your hunger.
In photo seventeen, I should mention the political posters I saw around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. You can see these posters on every street, much like we used to have back home.
The difference is that the Vietnamese posters actually feature Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, which is a point of similarity yet a difference from what we see in China.
After that, I went to southern Vietnam. Please look forward to hearing about what I saw there.
Muslim Travel Guide Vietnam Hanoi: Al-Noor Mosque, Wudu Area and Northern Vietnam Muslim Life
Articles • Hasan09 posted the article • 0 comments • 25 views • 5 days ago
Reposted from the web
Summary: This Muslim travel guide visits Al-Noor Mosque in Hanoi, the only operating mosque described in northern Vietnam. It keeps the original route, mosque details, wudu area, local Muslim notes, and nearby halal food context intact.
Most mosques in Vietnam are in the south. There is only one mosque currently operating in the north, which is the Al-Noor Mosque (Guangming Qingzhensi) I am introducing today.
Picture one shows the mosque entrance. It says Al-Noor, which is the Latin transliteration of the Arabic word for light. You can see from the Vietnamese text at the bottom that Vietnam still uses the term Hoi Giao for Islam.
Picture two shows the minaret of the mosque.
Pictures three and four show the mosque courtyard. A simple canopy covers it to keep it clean, and you must take off your shoes before entering. I guess they have to use the courtyard as a prayer hall because the mosque is quite small.
Pictures five, six, and seven show the inside of the prayer hall. The lighting is not very good, and you have to walk through the prayer hall to reach the area for wudu. Overall, the conditions are not great.
Picture eight shows some religious materials placed at the entrance of the prayer hall. I met the imam here. He is a Cham person, which is an ethnic minority in Vietnam. His hometown is in a village in southern Vietnam. He is young and very kind.
I asked him if there were any Kinh (the main ethnic group in Vietnam) Muslims, and he said one or two Kinh people convert to Islam every month.
Later, I actually met a Kinh Muslim. He came over to greet me, and during our conversation, I could see he was very passionate about his faith. He disappeared for a moment, but when I saw him again, he was carrying some pastries, and a mother and daughter were standing at the door.
It turned out the mother and daughter were there to learn about Islam. The young Kinh man had gone to buy them pastries so they could sit down, eat, and talk.
In photos nine through thirteen, it was time to eat. There are quite a few halal restaurants around the mosque; I thought there would only be one or two before I arrived.
In photo fourteen, the young man treated me to Vietnamese rice noodle soup (pho), which was duck flavored and included bamboo shoots. He asked me if people in China also eat bamboo shoots, and I said of course.
In photos fifteen and sixteen, the next day I ate another Vietnamese specialty across from the mosque: a baguette sandwich (banh mi). You take the baguette brought by the former colonists, slice it open, and fill it with eggs, sausage, vegetables, or grilled meat skewers to finish the snack.
The baguette is very chewy, but it is not very filling, so one is not enough to satisfy your hunger.
In photo seventeen, I should mention the political posters I saw around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. You can see these posters on every street, much like we used to have back home.
The difference is that the Vietnamese posters actually feature Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, which is a point of similarity yet a difference from what we see in China.
After that, I went to southern Vietnam. Please look forward to hearing about what I saw there. view all
Summary: This Muslim travel guide visits Al-Noor Mosque in Hanoi, the only operating mosque described in northern Vietnam. It keeps the original route, mosque details, wudu area, local Muslim notes, and nearby halal food context intact.
Most mosques in Vietnam are in the south. There is only one mosque currently operating in the north, which is the Al-Noor Mosque (Guangming Qingzhensi) I am introducing today.
Picture one shows the mosque entrance. It says Al-Noor, which is the Latin transliteration of the Arabic word for light. You can see from the Vietnamese text at the bottom that Vietnam still uses the term Hoi Giao for Islam.
Picture two shows the minaret of the mosque.
Pictures three and four show the mosque courtyard. A simple canopy covers it to keep it clean, and you must take off your shoes before entering. I guess they have to use the courtyard as a prayer hall because the mosque is quite small.
Pictures five, six, and seven show the inside of the prayer hall. The lighting is not very good, and you have to walk through the prayer hall to reach the area for wudu. Overall, the conditions are not great.
Picture eight shows some religious materials placed at the entrance of the prayer hall. I met the imam here. He is a Cham person, which is an ethnic minority in Vietnam. His hometown is in a village in southern Vietnam. He is young and very kind.
I asked him if there were any Kinh (the main ethnic group in Vietnam) Muslims, and he said one or two Kinh people convert to Islam every month.
Later, I actually met a Kinh Muslim. He came over to greet me, and during our conversation, I could see he was very passionate about his faith. He disappeared for a moment, but when I saw him again, he was carrying some pastries, and a mother and daughter were standing at the door.
It turned out the mother and daughter were there to learn about Islam. The young Kinh man had gone to buy them pastries so they could sit down, eat, and talk.
In photos nine through thirteen, it was time to eat. There are quite a few halal restaurants around the mosque; I thought there would only be one or two before I arrived.
In photo fourteen, the young man treated me to Vietnamese rice noodle soup (pho), which was duck flavored and included bamboo shoots. He asked me if people in China also eat bamboo shoots, and I said of course.
In photos fifteen and sixteen, the next day I ate another Vietnamese specialty across from the mosque: a baguette sandwich (banh mi). You take the baguette brought by the former colonists, slice it open, and fill it with eggs, sausage, vegetables, or grilled meat skewers to finish the snack.
The baguette is very chewy, but it is not very filling, so one is not enough to satisfy your hunger.
In photo seventeen, I should mention the political posters I saw around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. You can see these posters on every street, much like we used to have back home.
The difference is that the Vietnamese posters actually feature Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, which is a point of similarity yet a difference from what we see in China.
After that, I went to southern Vietnam. Please look forward to hearing about what I saw there. view all
Reposted from the web
Summary: This Muslim travel guide visits Al-Noor Mosque in Hanoi, the only operating mosque described in northern Vietnam. It keeps the original route, mosque details, wudu area, local Muslim notes, and nearby halal food context intact.
Most mosques in Vietnam are in the south. There is only one mosque currently operating in the north, which is the Al-Noor Mosque (Guangming Qingzhensi) I am introducing today.
Picture one shows the mosque entrance. It says Al-Noor, which is the Latin transliteration of the Arabic word for light. You can see from the Vietnamese text at the bottom that Vietnam still uses the term Hoi Giao for Islam.
Picture two shows the minaret of the mosque.
Pictures three and four show the mosque courtyard. A simple canopy covers it to keep it clean, and you must take off your shoes before entering. I guess they have to use the courtyard as a prayer hall because the mosque is quite small.
Pictures five, six, and seven show the inside of the prayer hall. The lighting is not very good, and you have to walk through the prayer hall to reach the area for wudu. Overall, the conditions are not great.
Picture eight shows some religious materials placed at the entrance of the prayer hall. I met the imam here. He is a Cham person, which is an ethnic minority in Vietnam. His hometown is in a village in southern Vietnam. He is young and very kind.
I asked him if there were any Kinh (the main ethnic group in Vietnam) Muslims, and he said one or two Kinh people convert to Islam every month.
Later, I actually met a Kinh Muslim. He came over to greet me, and during our conversation, I could see he was very passionate about his faith. He disappeared for a moment, but when I saw him again, he was carrying some pastries, and a mother and daughter were standing at the door.
It turned out the mother and daughter were there to learn about Islam. The young Kinh man had gone to buy them pastries so they could sit down, eat, and talk.
In photos nine through thirteen, it was time to eat. There are quite a few halal restaurants around the mosque; I thought there would only be one or two before I arrived.
In photo fourteen, the young man treated me to Vietnamese rice noodle soup (pho), which was duck flavored and included bamboo shoots. He asked me if people in China also eat bamboo shoots, and I said of course.
In photos fifteen and sixteen, the next day I ate another Vietnamese specialty across from the mosque: a baguette sandwich (banh mi). You take the baguette brought by the former colonists, slice it open, and fill it with eggs, sausage, vegetables, or grilled meat skewers to finish the snack.
The baguette is very chewy, but it is not very filling, so one is not enough to satisfy your hunger.
In photo seventeen, I should mention the political posters I saw around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. You can see these posters on every street, much like we used to have back home.
The difference is that the Vietnamese posters actually feature Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, which is a point of similarity yet a difference from what we see in China.
After that, I went to southern Vietnam. Please look forward to hearing about what I saw there.
Summary: This Muslim travel guide visits Al-Noor Mosque in Hanoi, the only operating mosque described in northern Vietnam. It keeps the original route, mosque details, wudu area, local Muslim notes, and nearby halal food context intact.
Most mosques in Vietnam are in the south. There is only one mosque currently operating in the north, which is the Al-Noor Mosque (Guangming Qingzhensi) I am introducing today.
Picture one shows the mosque entrance. It says Al-Noor, which is the Latin transliteration of the Arabic word for light. You can see from the Vietnamese text at the bottom that Vietnam still uses the term Hoi Giao for Islam.
Picture two shows the minaret of the mosque.
Pictures three and four show the mosque courtyard. A simple canopy covers it to keep it clean, and you must take off your shoes before entering. I guess they have to use the courtyard as a prayer hall because the mosque is quite small.
Pictures five, six, and seven show the inside of the prayer hall. The lighting is not very good, and you have to walk through the prayer hall to reach the area for wudu. Overall, the conditions are not great.
Picture eight shows some religious materials placed at the entrance of the prayer hall. I met the imam here. He is a Cham person, which is an ethnic minority in Vietnam. His hometown is in a village in southern Vietnam. He is young and very kind.
I asked him if there were any Kinh (the main ethnic group in Vietnam) Muslims, and he said one or two Kinh people convert to Islam every month.
Later, I actually met a Kinh Muslim. He came over to greet me, and during our conversation, I could see he was very passionate about his faith. He disappeared for a moment, but when I saw him again, he was carrying some pastries, and a mother and daughter were standing at the door.
It turned out the mother and daughter were there to learn about Islam. The young Kinh man had gone to buy them pastries so they could sit down, eat, and talk.
In photos nine through thirteen, it was time to eat. There are quite a few halal restaurants around the mosque; I thought there would only be one or two before I arrived.
In photo fourteen, the young man treated me to Vietnamese rice noodle soup (pho), which was duck flavored and included bamboo shoots. He asked me if people in China also eat bamboo shoots, and I said of course.
In photos fifteen and sixteen, the next day I ate another Vietnamese specialty across from the mosque: a baguette sandwich (banh mi). You take the baguette brought by the former colonists, slice it open, and fill it with eggs, sausage, vegetables, or grilled meat skewers to finish the snack.
The baguette is very chewy, but it is not very filling, so one is not enough to satisfy your hunger.
In photo seventeen, I should mention the political posters I saw around the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. You can see these posters on every street, much like we used to have back home.
The difference is that the Vietnamese posters actually feature Buddhist monks and Catholic priests, which is a point of similarity yet a difference from what we see in China.
After that, I went to southern Vietnam. Please look forward to hearing about what I saw there.