Churches/Mosques

[Edil Legno]

There are some books dealing  this argument:

"Kazan.The Enchanted Capital"
(Flint River Press.Ltd.London,1995)

"The Decorative Applied Art of the Kazan Tatars"(Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers,Moscow,1990.)
 
In 1552 Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) conquered Kazan and annexed Kazan Khanate to Russian State. Tatar population was ousted to the suburbs. The violent christianiziation began. Close to the end of the XVI century Tatar Settlement became the place where Tatar people lived.
In 1556 under guidance of Russian church and city master Postnik Jakovlev the white stone parts of new Kazan Kremlin were built with Spasskaya Tower,Taynitskaja Tower and Annunciation Cathedral - built in place of Kremlin  Cathedral Mosque.In 1593 the Ukase of Tsar Theodor Ionnovitch to destroy all mosques at the Kazan territory was edited.
Katherine II abolished the prohibition to built mosques, and the first stone Mosque arose in Kazan in 1766-70;it was named after Mardzhani - the scientist-orientalist,philosopher and educator.

Katarìna Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.

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