Red Mosque, Oral
Stone mosque in Oral's Tatar quarter, among the oldest surviving mosques in Kazakhstan and a monument of local significance
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Overview
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The Red Mosque is a stone mosque in the city of Oral, West Kazakhstan, at 9 8 Marta Street. It is known in Tatar as Кызыл мәчет, in Kazakh as Qyzyl meşıtı and in Russian as Красная мечеть, and is also called the Mosque of Muhammad-Garif Tulbaev. It stands in the Tatar quarter (Tatarskaya sloboda) of the city, referred to in Russian sources as Uralsk. It is regarded as one of the oldest surviving mosques in Kazakhstan and holds the status of an architectural monument of local significance.
History
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One source gives 1871 as the year the mosque was built, while another dates its construction to the period between 1871 and 1875. It was erected in the Tatar quarter of Uralsk, the settlement of the city's Tatar community.