Without waiting for a site to be allocated for the construction of a mosque, Sakhalin Muslims began raising funds to purchase a site or building
On February 6, 2012, it became known that the Sakhalin Muslim community, having failed to get the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk administration to allocate a site for the construction of a mosque, began raising funds to buy out the site or the finished building. Maxim Surovtsev, chairman of the local religious organization, said that a few years ago the administration provided the land not to the community, but to a public foundation, which failed to manage the land properly.