Oriental fairy tale of Kazan-Star-Tatar Sloboda!

Created after the capture of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible, the Staro-Tatar Sloboda on the right bank of Kaban Island preserved the richest estates of Tatar merchants, mosques and apartment houses. You will visit the first stone mosque of Al-Marjani, built with the personal permission of Empress Catherine 2 in 1767, walk along the smallest and most stylish street of our city, Kayum Nasyri Street. You will see the Nurulla Mosque, Apanayev Mosque, Burnaev Mosque and, of course, admire the beautiful view of Lake Kaban, learn the beautiful legends about the history of the largest lake in the Republic of Tatarstan.

Further, on Yunusov Square, you will see magnificent mansions of rich merchants of the Old Tatar Sloboda, built in the Gothic and Romanesque style. In 1992, the Tatar Sloboda received the status of an architectural and historical protected area.

At the end of the tour, there are two museums to choose from:

1. the Chak-Chak Museum is an oriental sweetness made of dough and honey prepared by the Turkic peoples. Here they will tell you the history of this dish, tell you a lot of interesting things about the life of the Tatars and, of course, pour delicious tea!

2. the Museum is dedicated to the great Tatar poet, without whom neither Tatar literature nor modern Tatar language is unthinkable. The museum opened for the centenary of the poet in 1986 in one of the most beautiful buildings of the Old Tatar Sloboda - "Shamil House", an architectural monument of the late XIX century.