"Ramzan" mosque (Kazan)

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This mosque was built in 1994 according to the design by the architect S.S.Aidarov. The mosque is situated on the fenced plot and surrounded by dwelling houses. It is a two-storeyed mosque with separate praying rooms and entries for men and women and a minaret in the centre of its roof. It is a brick building with an extended first floor. The women's praying room is situated in the southern part of the first floor. In both sides from it there are men's and women's entries to the mosque. They are leading to the separate vestibules, around which there is a cloak- room, the rooms for ablutions and service facilities. In the northern part of the mosque there is a three-flight staircase leading to the second floor, where there is an enfilade of the praying rooms for men. The main praying room with the cantilever mikhrab on its southern wall is vaulted. From the roof’s centre rises the square minaret with two tiers. The narrow stairs lead from the second floor to the minaret. In the facades' styling the terracota walls harmonize with the white curved cantilevers and ornamental inserts with the Tatar folk decorative ornament. Unfortunately, the styling of the facades has not been completed.
The mosque is a modern Moslem religious construction in which a separate room and an entrance for women and the appropriate rooms are added to traditional layout and arrangement. The shape of its minaret bears resemblance to the minaret of the mosque “Barudia”, which was erected in 1805 in Porokhovaya Sloboda (not far from the place where the mosque “Ramazan” is located) and destroyed in 1973.