As of 2013, it was estimated that there were around 24,300 mosques in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, significantly increased from the number in 1978 after the Cultural Revolution, but still did not reach the number in the early 1950s right after the People's Republic was founded.
Number of mosques in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from 1950 to 2013
**Figures from "Development and Progress in Xinjiang white paper", published by the press section of the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China.
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