🏛 Cathedral Mosque

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A large grey granite mosque with two minarets opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The mosque was founded on 3 February 1910 in the presence of Emir of Bukhara Sayyid Abdul-Ahad Khan, who gave the money to buy the plot.
The project's author is Nikolay Vasilyev; 45 designs took part in the 1908 competition.
The artist L. Maksimov travelled to Samarkand to copy the ornaments of the Shah-i-Zinda and Gur-e-Amir mosques.
The main dome rises 39 m and the minarets 48 m; the mosque holds 5,000 people.
In 1915, to raise money for its completion, the mosque was opened for paid viewing.
The mosaics for the portal, dome and minarets were made by craftsmen in the village of Kikerino near Gatchina.

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