Mosques in Russia

The construction of mosques in Russia has been documented from the 1550s to 2010 and mirrors the history of Islam in Russia. Russian mosques span the mosques of Europe and Asia.

Mosques of note[edit]

Name Image Locality Federal subject Established
Uchaly Mosque Uchaly Bashkortostan 1990s
Zaynulla Rasulev Mosque Uchaly Bashkortostan 2009
Lala Tulpan Ufa Bashkortostan 1990–1998
Mosque of Twenty-Five Prophets Ufa Bashkortostan 2010
Tukayev Mosque Ufa Bashkortostan 1830
Moscow Cathedral Mosque Moscow Moscow 1904
Old Mosque, Moscow Moscow Moscow 1823
Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque Grozny Chechnya 2008[1]
Bulgar Mosque (Cheboksary) Cheboksary Chuvashia 2005
Friday Mosque[2] Derbent Dagestan
Grand Mosque of Makhachkala Makhachkala Dagestan 1996
Hay Market Mosque[2] Kaliningrad Kaliningrad
Nord Kamal Mosque Norilsk Krasnoyarsk Krai 1998
Fair Mosque Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod 1817[3]
Nizhny Novgorod Cathedral Mosque [ru] Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod 1915[4]
Mukhtarov Mosque Vladikavkaz North Ossetia–Alania 1908
Saint Petersburg Mosque St Petersburg St Petersburg 1913
Old Mosque Orenburg
Orenburg Caravanserai Orenburg Orenburg 1846
Perm Mosque Perm Perm Krai 1903
Khan's Mosque Kasimov Ryazan 1550s, 1768, 1835
Samara Mosque Samara Samara 1999
Azigulovo Mosque[5] Achitsky District Sverdlovsk Oblast
Äcem Mosque Kazan Tatarstan 1890
Thousandth Anniversary of Islam Mosque Kazan Tatarstan 1926
Bornay Mosque Kazan Tatarstan 1872
Bulgar Mosque Kazan Tatarstan 1993
Iske Tash Mosque Kazan Tatarstan 1802
Märcani Mosque Kazan Tatarstan 1770
Nurulla Mosque Kazan Tatarstan 1849
Kul Sharif Mosque Kazan Tatarstan 2005
Soltan Mosque Kazan Tatarstan 1868

List[edit]

The following is a partial list of mosques in Russia.

Name Image Locality Federal subject Established
White Mosque of Astrakhan Astrakhan Astrakhan 1810
Black Mosque of Astrakhan Astrakhan Astrakhan 1816
Red Mosque of Astrakhan Astrakhan Astrakhan 1990
Nur Mosque Kurgashly Bashkortostan
Alekseevka Mosque [ru] Ufimsky District Bashkortostan 2004
Asiya Mosque [ru] Ufa Bashkortostan 2002
Gufran Mosque [ru] Ufa Bashkortostan 1909
Hakimiya Mosque [ru] Ufa Bashkortostan 1906
Hamza Hadji [ru] Ufa Bashkortostan 1996
Ihlas Mosque [ru] Ufa Bashkortostan 1997
Munira Mosque [ru] Ufa Bashkortostan 2002
Sufiya Mosque [ba] Bashkortostan
Salavat Mosque [ru] Salavat Bashkortostan 1985
Khamza Haji [ru] Ufa Bashkortostan 1996–2006
Ivanovo Mosque [ru] Ivanovo Ivanovo 2003
Penza Mosque Penza Penza Oblast
Husainiya Mosque [ru] Orenburg Orenburg 1892
Tauba Mosque [ru] Naberezhnye Chelny Tatarstan 1992
Nizhnekamsk Mosque [ru] Nizhnekamsk Tatarstan 1996
Tver Mosque [ru] Tver Tver 1906
Yaroslavl Mosque [ru] Yaroslavl Yaroslavl 1914
Memorial Mosque [ru][2] Moscow Moscow 1995-1997
Great Mosque of Podlipki [ru] Podlipki Ryazan 1880
Old Mosque, Samara Samara Samara 1891
White Mosque (Bolghar) [ru] Bolgar Tatarstan 1992
Ramazan Mosque Orenburg
Suleimaniya Mosque Orenburg
White Mosque (Tomsk) [ru] Tomsk Tomsk Oblast 1913
Red Mosque (Tomsk) [ru] Tomsk Tomsk Oblast 1901-1904

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Alexei V. Malashenko; Aziza Nuritova (2009). "Islam in Russia". Social Research. 76 (1): 321–358. JSTOR 40972148.
  2. ^ a b c ArchNet. "Russian Federation". Archived from the original on 2013-12-27.
  3. ^ Allen J. Frank (2001). Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia: The Islamic World of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910. Brill. ISBN 90-04-11975-2.
  4. ^ Mukhetdinov, D. B. (2006). Мечети Российской империи: альбом фотографий конца XIX-начала ХХ вв [Mosques of the Russian Empire: an album of photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries] (in Russian). Медина. ISBN 9785975600127.
  5. ^ Anne White (2004). Small-Town Russia: Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities: A Portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-30292-5.

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