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Mosque of Abdukadir beginning of XX century

Abdukadir Mosque is located at the intersection of modern Abay and Koshenyi Streets. The Abdukadir mosque was built at the beginning of the 20th century, previously it was part of the madrasah, which is a traditional courtyard complex with religious and household buildings. In the early 1920s, the complex was dismantled into bricks, only a part of the entrance portal of the mosque has survived to this day. Until the 1920s  the main imam of this mosque was Altynkhan - tore, widely known to the Muslim world as a scholar who wrote a lot about spiritual knowledge and studied the foundations of Islamic civilization. The monument was examined by restorers in 1975-1980 and has not been previously covered in scientific literature. In the 1990s, the portal’s wooden entrance doors, decorated with carvings, were recreated. Since 1992 the construction of a new madrasah building was carried out on the territory of the complex. In 2002 restoration work was carried out on the entrance portal.

The monument’s artistic value is the entrance part of the complex, preserved from the original construction - the only example of a monumental building of the Darbaz type in the region. The entrance portal is built of burnt brick, the main facade facing on the street. Cochineal. From the dome, only the arch of the ceiling was preserved. The main facade is designed in the form of a portal with a deep lancet niche framed by a wide rectangular frame and flanked by corner turrets.

The courtyard, the western facade also has a large niche located in the center, cut through the gates with a beam jumper. Yard pylons are decorated with two-tier rows of niches. One of the through lower niches is the entrance to the arranged internal staircase leading to the roof. The interior space of the hall is expanded by symmetrically located large niches and completed with a vaulted ceiling, on which a low minaret with a crowning arched lantern blocked by a dome is placed outside.