A mosque will be built on the banks of the Oka River in Nizhny Novgorod

On April 13, 2013 it became known that the commission of the Nizhny Novgorod Duma on Ecology approved the idea of ​​building a mosque on the banks of the Oka River and relevant changes to the master plan of the city.

The mosque is planned to be built between the Oka embankment and flour mill, near the circus and the planetarium.

Until 1930, the Nizhny Novgorod fair mosque.

IN early November 2013, the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region was transferred to the leadership of the Spiritual Board of Muslims an order on preliminary approval of the place of accommodation Fair mosque in the Kanavinsky district (Marata street).

Sources

• Mosque to be restored in Nizhny Novgorod // Islam. RU. 2013. April 13.
• The government of the Nizhny Novgorod region agreed on a site for the reconstruction of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair Mosque // Islam in Nizhny Novgorod. November 13, 2013