Tatar’s Mosque in Raiziai

Raiziai, Alytus district

Tatar’s Mosque in Raiziai
Aut. Mindaugas Šematulskis

Tatar’s Mosque in Raiziai
Aut. Mindaugas Šematulskis

Tatar’s Mosque in Raiziai. The Raižiai village is known as Tartarian living place since XVI century. There was a Lithuanian Muslim centre before the WW II. The wooden mosque of Raižiai built in 1889 was the only one functioning during the Soviet period. In 2010 a monument to Grand Duke Vytautas was built, noting the 400th anniversary of Battle of Grunwald. Near Raižiai mosque, there are also two sundials showing local ant Battle times. 

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