Old Tatar Sloboda

A unique place in Kazan, the old Tatar settlement. Tatars have long settled here, after the capture of Kazan. Ivan the Terrible gave them a place behind Lake Kaban. In the beginning it was one street along The lake later grew an entire settlement. The old frames, the cracks on the facades, In some places, stucco and age-old trees can study the history of this seats. Colorful houses of merchants, estates, settlements, mansions of Tatars 19th century industrialists. . Here everything is impregnated with an unusually bright and pure aura. In the settlement there is the oldest mosque of Kazan - Al Marjani. It's the first. The city's stone mosque. It was built to the highest resolution. Empress Catherine II in 1770. Shortly before that she visited Kazan. To explore the eastern borders of the state. She allowed Tatar merchants build the first mosque after the conquest of Kazan. Its name is related to outstanding Tatar scholar, Muslim, theologian, Shigabutdin Marjani, He served as an imam for 30 years. This mosque is never It was closed, even in Soviet times. From the beginning, it became central. cathedral. There were many famous people of the era of merchant Kazan. Visit. The mosque can be on a tour of the Old Tatar settlement.