Thursday, November 13, 2014

Bashkortostan - The Old Mosque

"First Ufa Cathedral Mosque" is what the back of the card wrote.  I assumed it means 'the old Mosque' as what I can find in Wiki; Thank you to Angie for a new mosque postcard which added to my mosque collection.


"The Old Mosque, Ufa, commonly known as the Tukayev Mosque, is located in Ufa, Russia. The first permanent mosque in the city of Ufa was erected in 1830 on Frolovskaya Street (later renamed Tukayev Street).[1] Its construction was initiated by Gabdesallam Gabdrakhimov (1765-1840), the second mufti of the Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly. A madrasah was opened in 1887. It was the only active mosque in the city between 1960 and 1994."


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