Funeral and Memorial Rites of Moscow Muslims in the 1960s–1980s
Year: 2023

This chapter, based on archival documents and testimonies, examines the funeral-memorial rituals of a Moscow Tatar community, most of which originated from the Gorkiy (Nizhnii Novgorod) region, during the period of “mature socialism” in the 1960s–1980s. The focus is on the activity of the only Muslim temple open in Moscow at the time, the Cathedral Mosque, which was then headed by imam Akhmetzian Mustafin, and of representatives of the unofficial clergy conducting funeral and memorial rituals. T