There are 1,582 mosques in the Republic of Tatarstan
In 2023, 19 new mosques, five prayer rooms and two educational centers opened in Tatarstan. Some of the mosques accommodate several dozen or several hundred parishioners. The total number of mosques in Tatarstan is 1,582, reports the press service of the Muslim Religious Board of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Two mosques were opened in the Drozhzhanovsky, Aktanyshsky, Almetyevsky and Pestrechinsky districts of the republic, one each in the mukhtasibats of the Atninsky, Novosheshminsky, Arsky, Yutazinsky, Elabuga, Rybnoslodsky, Aznakaevsky, Muslyumovsky, Baltasinsky, Kirovsky and Moskovsky, Vakhitovsky and Privolzhsky districts of Kazan.
Mosques include not only prayer halls, but also classrooms, halls for holding majlises, canteens, marriage centers, shops, imam’s houses, places for organizing sacrifices and holding janaza prayers.
The number of prayer rooms in public places has increased. Last year they opened at 5 sites – in the clinic of the Republican Clinical Hospital, the Military Hospital of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Kazan, in the Yelabuga Central District Hospital and in the 20th clinic in Kazan.
In addition to mosques and prayer rooms, the halal infrastructure was supplemented by two educational centers in the mukhtasibats of the Kamsko-Ustinsky and Novosheshminsky districts.
Photo: press service of the Muslim Religious Board of the Republic of Tatarstan