Nursultan Nazarbayev and Recep Erdoğan touring new mosque in Turkestan
14:06, 17 April 2015
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are touring the new mosque in the city of Turkestan, Kazinform refers to Akorda Twitter account.
It bears to remind that the heads of the fraternal countries signed the agreement to build the mosque in 2000 in the framework of the celebration of the 1500th anniversary of Turkestan city. The construction of the mosque was funded by the Republic of Turkey. The minarets of the mosque are 33 meters high and the height of the dome equals to 31 meters.