Kruszyniany

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Wooden mosque in Kruszyniany
Wooden mosque in Kruszyniany
The Tatarian Cemetery at Kruszyniany
The Tatarian Cemetery at Kruszyniany

Kruszyniany is a village in the Podlasie Voivodeship, Poland, at 53.178907° N 23.812352° E, close to the border with Belarus. It was primarily a Tatar settlement. Today only minority of the village is Tatar and Muslim.

Sites of interest in the village include wooden mosque from 18th century (one of the two oldest in Poland), Muslim cemetery and Eastern Orthodox cemetery with cerkiew.

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