Wooden mosque in Novy Arysh village, Rybnoslobodsky district, Republic of Tatarstan

July 21

This is a wooden mosque of the rural type with a minaret on the roof.  The walls are lined with thin planks and painted a light green. The windows in plastic frames have different sizes and are decorated with modest casing moldings with blue and white painting. The minaret has forms characteristic of the XIXcentury. The octagonal trunk with an internal staircase ends with an octagonal tier (“lantern”) with windows on each side, decorated with blue casing moldings. The roof of the mosque and the high marquee of the minaret are made of profiled sheeting of gray color. The fence of the mosque is made in the form of wooden fencing, painted dark green.  

Aydarov Ravil Sayarovich – is the author of the architectural watercolor