Private Muslim Tour to Summer Palace, Mosque & Olympic Venues

It was first built in 1750 by Emperor Qianlong, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886. Constructed around the Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake, Summer Palace is a vast complex of gardens, palaces, lakes, and hills. The landscaped gardens, temples, and pavilions were designed to achieve harmony with nature and to please the eye. In December 1998, UNESCO included the Summer Palace on its World Heritage List. It declared the Summer Palace a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design.

During the years of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, it was renovated and extended, gradually forming the present scale. Most of the Muslims having religious service in Haidian Mosque are students from Beijing University, Central University of Nationalities, and Beijing Foreign Studies University etc. near around. Occasionally, foreign students studying in Beijing from Arabic countries will also go there. A rather great number of businessmen living in Beijing temporarily also go to have religious service there.

It was designed and built for the opening and closing ceremonies, athletic events, and football final of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. The design, which originated from the study of Chinese ceramics, implemented steel beams in order to hide supports for the retractable roof; giving the stadium the appearance of a bird's nest. Water Cube is the colloquial name of the National Aquatics Center; it was built alongside the National Stadium in the Olympic Green for the swimming competitions of the 2008 Summer Olympics.