Orenburg Caravanserai

The Orenburg Caravanserai is Mosque, ancient and architectural complex in Orenburg. The building is positioned at 6 Park Avenue, Orenburg. Was constructed in 1837 – 1846 years on voluntary donations to place the Office of Bashkir-mesheryak military commander, hotels for Bashkirs who came to Orenburg "of their need for offerings and" workshop and college for the Bashkirs. Historical and architectural complicated includes Bashkir people homes and mosques.

The unique layout of the architect Alexander Brullov turned into designed as a pastiche of traditional Bashkir village: principal dominant ensemble - octagonal mosque reproduced form Bashkir yurt. History of Orenburg Caravanserai begins a long time earlier than the start of its creation. Bashkirs have again and again appealed to the tsarist authorities for permission to construct in Orenburg - then the place of business of the Bashkir land - the constructing where their kids should gather knowledge, study crafts.

At the insistence of the humans of the canton chiefs collecting on his foreman informed Canton Kagarmanov Kuvatova reap the highest in St. Petersburg building lets in in Orenburg Bashkir Caravanserai. After numerous years of ordeal Kuvatov obtained such permission from the Emperor Nicholas I. With the lively participation of the Bashkirs have been applied collection of fixed property and creation of the complex.