Mosques in Guangzhou and Friday Prayer: What Is Known

Dotted underline: only secondhand sources report it so far. Tap or hover it for why, and check before you go.

Which mosques can you visit in Guangzhou?

Four mosques in Yuexiu District are covered here. Each section gives the Chinese address to show a taxi driver and the nearest metro station. The metro exit letters are not in our data, so follow the exit signs inside the station.

For halal restaurants near these mosques, read the halal food guide. For hotels and the area around Xiaobei, read the Xiaobei guide.

Huaisheng Mosque (怀圣寺)

• Address: 56 Guangta Road, Yuexiu. Show: 广州市越秀区光塔路56号
• Metro: Ximenkou Station (西门口站), Line 1.
• Status: A search result for the city’s international visitor page lists it as a national key heritage protection unit, one of four national-level religious sites in Guangzhou. We could not open the page itself.

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The city government issued a conservation plan for the Guangta in December 2025. It sets these rules:

1. The tower cannot be climbed. Visitors view it from its base (Article 43).
2. Visitors are limited to 480 per day and 96,000 per year, controlled by online booking and limited public opening hours (Article 43).
3. Non-Muslim opening should avoid Friday prayer day, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha (Article 41).
4. Staff brief visitors on mosque etiquette before they enter (Article 44).

The plan sets no dress rule and no photography rule.

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Can non-Muslims enter?

This is unresolved. The plan describes limited, booked public opening. A booking site says non-Muslims are welcome. A third-party site says the mosque now opens only to Muslims, but it gives no link and could not be checked, and it conflicts with the plan. We could not read the city’s international page to check. No opening hours or entry fee come from the mosque or the Islamic Association. Ask before you go.

Xianxian Mosque and tomb (先贤清真寺, 清真先贤古墓)

• Address: 901 Jiefang North Road, Yuexiu (解放北路901号). Another listing gives 环市西路204-1号. Show: 广州市越秀区解放北路901号
• Metro: Guangzhou Railway Station (广州火车站), Lines 2 and 5. The mosque is reported to be a walk east of the station.

The tomb in the garden is traditionally attributed to Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas, a Companion of the Prophet. Some scholars dispute that he visited China (see the halal guide).

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Reports of the hall’s size differ. Wikipedia gives 1,000 worshippers, an old figure. One tourist site says about 10,000 at Friday prayer. A listing gives the tomb cemetery hours as 08:30 to 16:00, for visiting the tomb and not for prayer.

No official source gives opening hours or fees for Xianxian.

Haopan and Xiaodongying mosques

The table rows come from reference and listing sites, not from the mosques. Haopan is also said to be provincially protected. We found no hours, visitor rules or Friday prayer information for either mosque.

What time is Friday prayer?

No mosque, association or government page that we found publishes a Friday prayer (Jumu’ah) time. We record none.

1. Use a prayer-time app to find the Dhuhr time in Guangzhou for the day.
2. Ask at the mosque gate when the Friday prayer starts.
3. Arrive early. The city’s plan treats Friday prayer day as a day when public opening should be avoided.

The city’s conservation plan says public opening should avoid Friday prayer day and the two Eids. Check before you go.

Is there a prayer room at the Canton Fair?

Yes, for the 139th Canton Fair. The Guangzhou Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs inspected an Islamic temporary prayer room and halal dining on April 14, 2026. The notice was published on April 20, 2026. The room is inside the exhibition venue. The notice gives no hall number and no hours.

Ask fair staff or check the fair’s notices. We found no permanent mosque at Pazhou and no information on the prayer room of the next fair. The fair is at 380 Yuejiang Zhong Road, Haizhu. The nearest metro station is Pazhou (琶洲站), Lines 8 and 11. See Canton Fair by metro and the first-time guide.

What about dress, women and photographs?

No mosque or association page gives dress rules, women’s access rules or a photography rule. The city plan sets none for Huaisheng. One tourist site, the same one that gave the unsourced hours, says the following. No mosque confirms it:

• Wear modest clothes with long trousers and sleeves.
• Women should cover arms and legs. A headscarf is optional for non-Muslims.
• Take shoes off in prayer halls.
• Photos are fine outside and in the courtyard, but not in prayer halls during services. Ask before you photograph people.

How reliable is this page?

Only two items come from official pages we could read: the Guangta conservation plan and the Canton Fair prayer-room notice. Addresses, hours and rules for the other mosques come from tourist and reference sites. Ask at each gate before you go.