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Navahrudak Mosque

Coordinates: 53°21′13″N 25°29′36″E / 53.3537°N 25.4934°E / 53.3537; 25.4934
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Navahrudak Mosque
Навагрудская мячэць
Religion
AffiliationIslam
Branch/traditionSunni
Location
LocationNovogrudok, Grodno, Belarus
Navahrudak Mosque is located in Belarus
Navahrudak Mosque
Shown within Belarus
Geographic coordinates53°21′13″N 25°29′36″E / 53.3537°N 25.4934°E / 53.3537; 25.4934
Architecture
Typemosque
Completed1796

Navahrudak Mosque (Belarusian: Навагрудская мячэць, Polish: Meczet w Nowogródku) is a wooden mosque located in Novogrudok, Grodno Region in Belarus.[1]

It was the largest Lipka Tatar mosque in the Second Polish Republic. Following the 22 September 1929, it was the first mosque to be visited by a Polish senior state official - the Polish president, Ignacy Mościcki.[2]

Following the Second World War, the mosque was transformed into a residential building (the minaret and tower was destroyed). During the 1990s, there were increasing efforts to rebuild the Tatar mosque. The mosque was reopened in 1997.

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References

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  1. ^ "The Tatar mosque in Navahrudak". Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  2. ^ Miśkiewicz, Aleksander Ali; Kamocki, Janusz (2004). Tatarzy słowiańszczyzną obłaskawieni (in Polish). Warsaw: Kraków : Universitas. p. 110. ISBN 9788324202874. Retrieved 9 March 2019.