Kerch Mosque
Also known as: Kerch Mosque
mosque in Ukraine
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Overview
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The Kerch Mosque stands at 8 Pushkina Street in the city of Kerch, on the Crimean Peninsula. Sources also call it Juma-Jami and Kerich-Jami, and describe it as the Kerch Cathedral Mosque, a historic mosque complex. It was built in 1850 and is regarded as an architectural monument. According to the record, it is listed in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine and is treated as a regional cultural heritage site in Russia.
History
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Plans for a mosque date back to 1839, when Mikhail Vorontsov, Governor-General of Novorossiya and Bessarabia, established a Muslim community on the outskirts of Kerch. Construction was postponed between 1839 and 1850 because of a shortage of funds, and the mosque was completed in 1850.
From Wikipedia
Kerç Camii (Juma-Jami, Cuma Caii, Kerich-Cami), Kırım, Kerç'de 1850 yılında yapılmış olan, mimari bir anıt kabul edilen camidir.
Source: Wikipedia, article “Kerç Camii”; quoted unchanged under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Read more on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources
Wikipedia (id): https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%D0%B0sjid_Kerch
Wikipedia (ru): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C
Wikipedia (tr): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ker%C3%A7_Camii