Al-Marjani Mosque

Stand back from the fence to see the green roof and the full height of the minaret together. Move closer to study the tall windows.

Getting there

5 Kayuma Nasyri Street › Kayuma Nasyri Street › Zayni Sultana Street › Al-Marjani Mosque

From No. 5 follow Kayuma Nasyri Street in the direction of increasing house numbers. The minaret comes into view at pedestrian Zayni Sultana Street. Walk to the fence at No. 17. The mosque entrance is in the courtyard.

In the Kunak Bistäse courtyard at 13V Kayuma Nasyri Street, Ash Babay café serves elesh, a savoury pie, and tokmach soup with homemade noodles.

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History

The minaret rises straight out of the middle of the green roof. Worshippers first saw that outline by 1770, when their donations paid for one of Kazan’s earliest stone mosques after the conquest of 1552. Service rooms occupied the ground floor and the prayer hall was upstairs. A second prayer hall was added in the 19th century. Shigabutdin Marjani, the historian, teacher and preacher whose name the mosque bears, served here for nearly forty years. The call to prayer could still be heard here in Soviet times, when many of Tatarstan’s other mosques closed.

Sources

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• Al-Marjani Mosque
• Ash Babay café, menu and address

55.77985, 49.11719

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