Marjani Mosque

Located in the Old Tatar Quarter of Kazan, this is the first stone mosque permitted in the city after the reign of Catherine the Great, completed in the 1770s and long a centre of Tatar religious and intellectual life. Its slender minaret rises above the low houses of the district, and it is named after the influential nineteenth-century theologian Shihabuddin Marjani, who served here. The interior preserves painted decoration in a blend of Tatar and provincial baroque styles. It remains an active mosque and a symbol of revival.