The mosque named after R.G.Galeev Almetjevsk town

The mosque named after R.G.Galeev

The mosque was mimed after the chairman of the Board of “Tatneft” company, who made a generous contribution to the construction of the mosque. The mosque was built in 1990-1999 according to the project by the architects A.M.Zakirov and F.M. Mavlutov, engineers S.S. Abdullin, A.A.Gareev, V.LMaslova. The mosque is situated on the plot of land with relief drop. It belongs to the type of a dome mosque with a minaret on its roof. It is a 3-4-storeyed brick building the southern half of which places the praying room for 1200 persons covered up with the high dome. The northern part contains the conference-hall and auxiliary facilities. On the first floor of both parts there are study rooms. The main minaret (53.5 metres) rises above the north part of the building. The eight-faceted minarets (36.2 metres) rises above the praying room's corners. The gilded dome towers above the flat roof. Inside the room its walls, ceiling and inner surface of the dome are decorated with coloured tile. The windows in the upper part of the dome part and the second level of the praying room are decorated with stained glass panels. The mosque is a modern Moslem religious building with the large variety of functions.