Finnish Tatars

[Juha Tompuri]

I think Tatars are the second oldest Muslim community legally recognized in Europe apart from Austria.

http://www.snipview.com/q/Finnish_Tatar ... mSlideshow




https://icatat.wordpress.com/2013/05/10 ... -research/

Tatar Soldier in the Finnish Army, WW2

http://chirayliq.blogspot.fi/2007_08_01_archive.html
http://chirayliq.blogspot.fi/2007/09/ab ... n-war.html

Regards, Juha

[Juha Tompuri]

Sunday, 20 May was this year in Finland the Memorial Day for those fallen in the wars.

In Hietaniemi Cemetery of Helsinki, the Greek Orthodox and the Islamic Tatars have each their own shares of the graveyard...
... the Tatar monument with wreaths laid for the Memorial Day.

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... t#p1702434

Regards, Juha

[valtonen]

Also the jews have their own part at the Hietaniemi cemetary.

It has to be noted, that during the wars there were also field synagogues and mosques. Marshall Mannerheim even visited them on religious holidays.