In Tatarstan, four churches and a mosque will receive the status of cultural heritage sites
In the Laishevsky district of Tatarstan, four Orthodox churches and one mosque will receive the status of cultural heritage sites
In the Laishevsky district of Tatarstan, four Orthodox churches and one mosque will receive the status of cultural heritage sites. This is reported by the Committee for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The list includes the Transfiguration Church in the village of Bolshiye Kabany. The first wooden church here was consecrated by the Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsky Guriy in 1560. The modern brick building was erected in 1764, and in 1866 it was rebuilt. During the Soviet period, the parishioners managed to defend the church from ruin. In memory of this, a memorial plaque is installed on the wall.
A mosque in the village of Kirby will also become a protected facility. It was built in 1873, and after a fire it was restored in 1908 at the expense of the Kazan merchant Salikh Gubaidullin. During the Soviet era, divine services were not interrupted in it. In the 1990s, the building was restored to its original appearance.
In addition, the status will be given to the Ilyinsky Church in Sandy Forges, the Intercession Church in Tarlash and the Intercession Church in Sokury, built in 1895 on the donations of merchant Pavel Shchetinkin and local residents. The village of Sokury is the birthplace of the poet and statesman Gabriel Derzhavin.
