Rustam Minnikhanov invites the Imam of Sarajevo to celebrate the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by Volga Bulgaria

On April 14, during his working visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov together with Mufti of the republic Kamil Khazrat Samigullin visited the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, where they met the Imam of Sarajevo and the main Imam of the Mosque Mensur Malkić.

According to the results of the 2013 census survey, 3.83 million people live in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bosniaсs (Bosnian Muslims) make up half of the national population. As many as 45 per cent of believers profess Islam.

The Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque is the most significant architectural monument of the Ottoman period in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first mosque in the world to be supplied with electricity. 

Minnikhanov thanked the imam for the hospitality and congratulated him on the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. During the meeting, Minnikhanov invited Malkić to the celebration of the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by Volga Bulgaria, to be held in Tatarstan next year.