On the territory of the architectural and ethnographic museum in Taltsy (Irkutsk region), the construction of new exposition sites dedicated to the theme of immigrants to Siberia during the Stolypin agrarian reform is being completed. All denominations of the Irkutsk province will be represented in the museum. Now the building of the mosque is being completed.
The prototype of this Tatar mosque was built by local residents in Nizhnyaya Sloboda, Zhigalovsky district, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
At the beginning of the 20th century, about nine thousand Tatars lived in the Irkutsk province. These were voluntary settlers, as well as those sent to Siberia for political reasons, and settlers under the Stolypin agrarian reform.