CATHEDRAL MOSQUE OF ST. PETERSBURG: THE HISTORY OF CONSTRUCTION AND FATE

Аннотация

The article highlights the processes of construction of a mosque for Muslims by the Emir of Bukhara in the Northern capital of Russia - St. Petersburg. This article also describes on whose initiative the mosque was built, what unpleasant events the mosque experienced more than a century of its history, how during the reign of the atheist policy of the Soviet period, at the request of the society of "atheists”, the majestic Cathedral mosque, which at one time was the main mosque of the Russian Empire, was transformed into a repository, and the current state of the mosque.