Stary Krym, in east Crimea, has an important history for the Crimean Tatars, Crimea’s indigenous Muslim, Turkic people. The oldest mosque in Crimea is located here, in what was the medieval capital of the Golden Horde. In 1990 Ayshe Chabanova, a teacher of Russian newly arrived from central Asia, opened the very first Crimean Tatar language class in Crimea since before World War 2. There were 17 children, and no text books.
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Crimean Tatars pray inside a mosque during the sacrificial Eid al-Adha festival in Yevpatoria, Crimea, on Sept. 24, 2015.
