The Mosque of Twenty-Five Prophets (, , ) is situated in the southern part of the city of
Ufa, the capital of the
Republic of Bashkortostan
Bashkortostan, officially the Republic of Bashkortostan, sometimes also called Bashkiria, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia between the Volga, Volga river and the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. The republic borders Perm Krai to th ...
, in the
Russian Federation
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. Construction began on the mosque on 16 June 1995 (the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad), and ended fifteen years later on that same day.
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Fatima Faisova, Bezformata.ru, 29 January 2011.
The mosque was initially named ''ZaFaZa-Ihsan'', but when research by the son of the founders noted that there is no mosque in the world named for
the twenty-five prophets named in the Quran, the mosque was accordingly named after that group.
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See also
*Islam in Russia
Islam is a major religious minority in the Russian Federation, which has the largest Islam in Europe, Muslim population in Europe. According to the US Federal Research Division 1998 reference book, , viArchive.org/ref> Muslims in Russia number ...
*List of mosques in Russia
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*List of mosques in Europe
This is a partial list of mosques in Europe.
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See also
* Lists of mosques
* Islam in Europe
References
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* map
of mosques in Europe
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Mosques in Ufa
Mosques completed in 2010
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