Kokshetau's Tatar Mosque, Religious edifice in Kokshetau, Kazakhstan.
Kokshetau's Tatar Mosque is a prayer house with a rectangular form and a hip roof that combines the prayer hall and minaret in a single structure. The building features a two-tier minaret on its eastern edge and a flat dome mounted on a hexagonal drum at the western section.
The building was constructed between 1893 and 1894 with funding from Tatar merchants who wanted a place of worship in the city. After undergoing modifications during the Soviet period, it returned to active religious service in 1989.
The mosque serves as a gathering place for the Tatar Muslim community and remains the heart of Islamic worship in the city. People come here to practice their faith according to the Hanafi tradition, making it a living center of local religious life.
The mosque stands at 91 Auelbekova Street in central Kokshetau, on a street called Kazanskaya in the late 19th century. The entrance is on the eastern side, through the low porch volume; the mihrab niche faces west. The building is a protected monument, so visits should be timed around prayers.
On 26 April 2014, hurricane-force wind toppled the minaret into the mosque courtyard; it was later rebuilt. The mosque also housed the Regional Museum of History and Local Lore from 1947 to 1974, and in the 1980s Zhakiya Beisenbayev served as imam-khatib, the name the mosque now bears.
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