[1][2] The earliest examples of Islamic Tatar architecture are located in Bolghar; none of them are in use today.

They reflect strong similarities to Central Asian Islamic architecture from which the designs were derived.

Dating from the reign of Catherine the Great, the mosque's minaret is placed in the center of a gabled roof.

İske Taş and Pink Mosque [ru] were contributed to classicism style.

Among the architects, contributed to the mosques building in the 19th century the most notable were Pyatnitsky, Korinfsky, Schmidt, Peske, Romanov, Yermolayev, Pavlov, Parensov, Petondi, Tekhomirov, as well as non-professional architects Mansurov, Foshderebryuggen, Jakobson.