KAZAN, RUSSIA: The Qolsharif
Mosque in the Kazan Kremlin in Kazan, Russia. At the time of its
original construction in the 16th century, it was believed to be the
oldest mosque in Europe outside Istanbul. Named after Qolsharif, a
religious scholar and Imam of the Khanate of Kazan, who died in 1552
defending the mosque against Russian forces of Ivan the Terrible. It was
rebuilt and inaugurated in 2005. Kazan is in Tatarstan, a federal
subject of
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