Kayuma Nasyri Street

Walk slowly enough to compare the carved window frames of neighbouring houses. Look for the spot where a minaret appears between the rooftops.

Getting there

Chak-Chak Museum › Parizhskoy Kommuny Street › Gabdully Tukaya Street › Tatarstan Street › Kayuma Nasyri Street

Continue along Parizhskoy Kommuny Street to Galeyevskaya Mosque and turn left onto Gabdully Tukaya Street. Cross Tatarstan Street at the crossing and follow it towards the lake. Turn right onto pedestrian Kayuma Nasyri Street and walk to No. 5.

Slow down to compare the window frames on the merchants’ houses. Their colours and carvings change from block to block.

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History

A broad stone house gives way to a little timber one with painted window frames. Between their roofs a minaret comes into view. This was one of the wealthiest streets in the Old Tatar Quarter, home to merchant families and clergy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Until 1930 it was called Zakharyevskaya Street. The scholar it now honours, Kayum Nasyri, made science accessible to Kazan readers. His Kazan Calendar slipped articles on science and literature in among the dates, giving them something to read all year.

Sources

• Kayuma Nasyri Street
• Sources
• Galeyevskaya Mosque
• Kushayev estate on Kazan’s tourism portal

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