Apanayevskaya Mosque

Pause at the fence and look at the rows of windows. This quiet façade once hid a kindergarten.

Getting there

Al-Marjani Mosque › Kayuma Nasyri Street › Fatykha Karima Street › Apanayevskaya Mosque

Leave Al-Marjani Mosque behind and continue past the timber houses on Kayuma Nasyri Street. Cross Fatykha Karima Street and walk to No. 27. Move to the far side of the pedestrian street to see the whole mosque.

At Fatykha Karima Street, glance down the side street towards the lake. The houses of the old quarter stand surprisingly close to the water.

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History

Merchant Yakub Sultangaliyev funded construction in 1768. The Apanayev family, who supported the mosque for years, gave it its name. Its madrasa employed Salikh Sagitov, a teacher who had studied in Bukhara and Arabia. The mosque closed in 1930 and eventually housed a kindergarten. Its minaret disappeared, floors split the vaulted halls, and two rows of windows replaced one tall row. Returned to the community in 1995, the building owes its restored minaret and wall decorations to old architectural records.

Sources

• History
• Sources
• Apanayevskaya Mosque on Kazan’s tourism portal
• Pedestrian Kayuma Nasyri Street

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