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s with 53-metre-tall twin

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s. The building can hold up to 1000 worshippers. It was built between 1990 and 1998 to a modernist design by Wakil Davlyatshin. In 2001

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held a meeting with Talgat Tadzhuddin and other Muslim clerics at the mosque.

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Mosques in Ufa Mosques completed in 1998 {{Europe-mosque-stub

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