More than two million Muslims now live and work in Moscow. It has become one of the biggest cities for Muslims in Europe and its few houses of worship can no longer cope.
During Friday prayers the historic building is overflowing and thousands of faithful are praying outside in the snow.
Cars honk their horns and local people struggle to get past on the pavements.
It is a scene repeated at all of Moscow’s four mosques, as tens of thousands of Muslims gather for prayers every Friday.
The new Muslims are mainly young migrants from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Poverty and conflict forced them to seek new lives in Russia, and millions of Uzbeks, Tajiks and Kyrgyz have found jobs and a new home in Moscow.
Muscovites I talked to were divided on the changes the migrants are bringing to their city. Read the rest on: creepingsharia
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