Islam in Lithuania
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Islam in Lithuania, unlike many other northern and western European countries, has a long history starting from the 14th century. The medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania, stretching from the Baltic to B
Kaunas Mosque.
Graves of Muslim soldiers of Tsarist army, fallen in 1st World War at Lithuanian soil. Antakalnis Cemetery
Lithuanian Tatars of Napoleonic army.
Kaunas Mosque
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The Kaunas Mosque is a World Heritage-listed Sunni Islamic mosque, located at Tatars Street 6, in the Centras eldership of Kaunas, Lithuania. It is the only mosque in the Kaunas district, one of only
Islam in Lithuania
…of Lithuania (in the 1930s) to commemorate the anniversary of Vytautas, the duke who brought Tatars and Islam to Lithuania. That mosque is called Vytautas Didysis Mosque after the Grand Duke Vytautas. In the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, however, no mosque remains, as Russians destroyed the Lukiškės Mosque which was…
The mosque, in May 2019
The wooden mosque
New Kaunas mosque construction project