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Temir Mosque

The mosque was built in 1905, in Temir with the financial support of Orenburg merchant Mazhit Batkululi. However, he was bothered by local biis, bolsheviks and activists.

The mosque was built in 1905, in Temir with the financial support of Orenburg merchant Mazhit Batkululi. However, he was bothered by local biis, bolsheviks and activists. In the end, Mazhit Batkululi is looking for an imam who will own a local mosque. Ahmed Halfe, a religiously literate preacher, owns a mosque. Akhmet graduated from the Kazan, Ufa madrasah and became a khalfa. Despite the difficulties of the times, the spread of religion among the people, the growth of its prestige was greatly influenced by this literate person, who became Akhmet khalfe among the people. In 1926, he was a delegate to the Congress of Muslims in Ufa. Akhmet khalfe is accused of propagating the religion among the people, along with Akhmet Baitursynov, a former chairman of the West Alashorda government's religious department, and Sagidulla Iztleuov, a friend of Mustafa Shokai. In 1937, he was sentenced to death by firing squad.The walls of the mosque are made of treated brown stone with clay. On the northern surface, the octagonal tower is covered with wood and tin, the top of the roof is a hexagonal rectangle with a half-cross. On this page there is a half-dome-shaped closed prayer chamber. The interior is divided into three service rooms, connected to the two-story prayer room in the center and the exit door.The Temir Mosque is a rectangular (10x22 m), two-storey building built in the early ХХ century. It is located in Temir town of Temir district of Aktobe region.

Reference: 1. Regional sacred sites of Kazakhstan. –Astana: Foliant, 2017. –128 p .; 2. Sacred Kazakhstan. Volume 2 –Astana: 2018. –113-p.