Kazan, Russia
Coordinates: 55.777222, 49.128056
The Thousandth Anniversary of Islam Mosque or The Anniversary Mosque was built in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of the conversion of the Volga Bulgars in to Islam in 922.
The part where the mosque was situated was inhabited predominantly by the Russian community.
One of the ancient mosques of Kazan, and the only one built in the Soviet period, in 1926, in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the adoption of Islam in the Middle Volga region by the Khan of Volga Bulgaria, Almush.
Permission for the construction of this mosque in 1922 was given by the People’s Commissar for Nationalities Joseph Stalin.
It was closed in the 1930s as part of the Soviet Unions persecution of Muslims and was only reopened and used by Muslims in 1991.
Perhaps it was the protégé of Stalin who saved the mosque during the Soviet period from being dismantled.
Having opened in 1926, it was only one day to be a mosque.
From 1930 to 1990, it changed her assignment and housed a school, a kindergarten, and later DOSAAF.
In the early 1990s, a mosque was reborn. A big role in its revival is associated with the name of its Hz., a former lieutenant colonel-gunner, Iskhak Lotfullin.
Currently, this is one of the most populated mosques in Kazan by parishioners. Inside, they always meet warmly as at home.
