The Taipei Grand Mosque was designed by Yang Cho-cheng and built by Continental Engineering Corporation. Bai Chongxi and George Yeh proposed the larger mosque for the Chinese Muslim Association, which had used a converted Japanese-style house on Lishui Street from 1948. The current mosque was inaugurated on April 13, 1960. The infobox lists Islamic, Neo-Byzantine and Neoclassical styles, and the text describes an Islamic building with Neoclassical and Neo-Byzantine colonnades.
The prayer hall is 49 feet (15 m) square, and the total area is 29,570 square feet (2,747 m²). The brass-wrapped dome is 49 feet (15 m) high and wide, supported without beams, and two minarets stand 66 feet (20 m) tall. Materials include brick, cut stone, copper, brass and mosaic tiles. It holds 1,000 worshippers.
A 1999 land dispute threatened demolition, and it was designated a historic building on June 29, 1999.
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