The Seyit-Settar Mosque () is a
mosque
A mosque ( ), also called a masjid ( ), is a place of worship for Muslims. The term usually refers to a covered building, but can be any place where Salah, Islamic prayers are performed; such as an outdoor courtyard.
Originally, mosques were si ...
(''cami'') in
Old Simferopol
Old Simferopol, known locally as the Old Town (Crimean Tatar language, Crimean Tatar: Eski şeer, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Старе місто), is an area of the city of Simferopol which until the end of the 18th century served as the cen ...
neighborhood of
Simferopol
Simferopol ( ), also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, but controlled by Russia. It is considered the cap ...
,
Crimea
Crimea ( ) is a peninsula in Eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukrain ...
.
[Мечети Крыма: Сеит-Сеттар – возрождение через десятилетия (фотогалерея)]
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History
Records indicate that the mosque was funded in 1850 by the then Simferopol city mayor, merchant .[
During the ]Great Purge
The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (), also known as the Year of '37 () and the Yezhovshchina ( , ), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from 1936 to 1938. After the Assassination of Sergei Kirov, assassination of ...
, the mosque was abandoned by the religious community under fear of reprisals by the Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...
. In 1990s during the massive return of Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars (), or simply Crimeans (), are an Eastern European Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group and nation indigenous to Crimea. Their ethnogenesis lasted thousands of years in Crimea and the northern regions along the coast of the Blac ...
from the exile the mosque was reopened.[
In 2014 the old building was demolished. Before that, in 2013 the city council allocated 0.4452 hectares of territory adjacent to the mosque to the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Crimea for the reconstruction of the building and the construction of a ]madrasah
Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , ), sometimes romanized as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning ...
, an administrative building and a building for students. The new mosque, constructed over the old basement, was inaugurated in 2016.[В Симферополе после реконструкции открыли старинную мечеть]
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References
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Sunni mosques in Europe
Buildings and structures in Simferopol
Mosques in Crimea
Mosques completed in 2016