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      The Old Tatar Quarter in an hour: echpochmak and boardwalks over Kaban

      ⏱ 1 h 15 min🚶 1.2 km🍽 1📍 4 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      An hour in the Old Tatar Quarter: echpochmak with Tatar tea, Kazan's first stone mosque after 1552 and wooden boardwalks over the lake.

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        ☕️ Alan Ash café in the Old Tatar Quarter
        ул. Шигабутдина Марджани, 8
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        Start with echpochmak and tea; a snack here costs a couple of hundred rubles. It is about 15 minutes on foot from Ploshchad Tukaya metro.
        🍴 An inexpensive Tatar cuisine café in the Old Tatar Quarter. What to order: echpochmak, elesh, a meringue roll and Tatar tea.
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        🏛 Mardjani Mosque
        ул. Каюма Насыри, 17
        🆓 free entry
        Kazan's first stone mosque after 1552: Baroque decoration, Tatar ornament and a minaret on the roof.
        Across the road, on Qayum Nasiri Street: Baroque window frames and a minaret on the roof. Women will need a headscarf.
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        Mardjani Mosque
        © A.Savin · FAL
        Mardjani Mosque
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The mosque was built in 1766–1770 with personal permission from Catherine II, granted during her visit to Kazan.
        • It is the first stone mosque built in Kazan after 1552.
        • The money, 5,000 rubles, was raised by 62 parishioners.
        • Petersburg Baroque decoration is combined here with Tatar ornament.
        • The mosque is named after Imam Shihabuddin Marjani, who served in it.
        • For more than two centuries it was Kazan's main congregational mosque.
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        🏛 Apanaev Mosque
        ул. Каюма Насыри, 29
        The merchants' "Bai" ("Rich") mosque with a restored minaret, one of the most ornate facades in the Old Tatar Quarter.
        Five minutes along Qayum Nasiri Street: a merchant mosque with a restored minaret.
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        Apanaev Mosque
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The mosque is named after the Apanaev merchants who lived in this parish, hence its second name, "Bai" ("Rich").
        • In 1930 it was closed, the minaret and vaults were destroyed, and the building became a kindergarten.
        • The minaret was rebuilt during the 2007–2011 restoration.
        • The look is a mix of Moscow Baroque and Tatar ornament.
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        🌳 Lake Kaban Embankment
        ул. Шигабутдина Марджани, Старо-Татарская слобода
        A 5 km loop around Lower Kaban: wooden boardwalks over the water, views of the Old Tatar Quarter and the new Kamal Theatre building.
        Go down to the water by Kunche Street: the boardwalks of the new section over Kaban and a view of the Kamal Theatre on the opposite shore.
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        Lake Kaban Embankment
        © Vyacheslav Kirillin · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Lake Kaban Embankment
        © Engelberthumperdink · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The first phase of the new embankment opened in summer 2018, in time for the football World Cup.
        • The second phase along Marjani Street, with the monument to Shihabuddin Marjani, opened in late summer 2020.
        • The last section opened in late August 2026, closing the five-kilometre loop around the lake.
        • The highlight of the new section is a 1.3 km wooden deck over the water.
        • The "Elastic Ribbon" concept was devised by the Russian-Chinese consortium Turenscape+MAP.
        • The new section has a 1,250-seat amphitheatre and three "quiet zones" with log furniture.

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