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Qol Şärif Mosque
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Key facts
- Affiliation
- Sunni Islam
- District
- Tatarstan
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Kazan , Russia
- Type
- Mosque
- Style
- Islamic architecture , Russian architecture
- Completed
- c. 1552 CE (original structure) 2005 CE (current restoration)
- Capacity
- 6,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mosque
- Named after
- Qolşärif
- Religion
- Islam
- Country
- Russia
- Located in
- Kazan
- Material used
- marble
- Location
- Qazan Kremlin
- Official website
- kazan-kremlin.ru/muzej-zapovednik/o-kremle/arhitektura
- Image
- Kazan Kremlin Qolsharif Mosque 08-2016 img2.jpg
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- date of official opening
- 2005-06-24
- Commons category
- Kul Sharif Mosque
- native label
- Кол Шәриф мәчете
- architectural style
- Islamic architecture
- inception
- 1996-00-00
- maximum capacity
- 6000
- madhhab
- Hanafism
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Encyclopedic overview
The Kul Sharif Mosque (Tatar: Кол Шәриф мәчете, romanized: Qol Şärif mäçete; Russian: Мечеть Кул-Шариф, romanized: Mechet' Kul-Sharif) located in Kazan Kremlin, was reputed to be – at the time of its construction – one of the largest mosques in Russia, and in Europe outside of Istanbul.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qol Şärif Mosque” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.