One of the oldest mosques in Tatarstan is located in the historic center of Chistopol. The wooden building of the mosque "Nur" in the national-romantic style was built in 1857 for the project earlier this place burned down the Muslim temple in the eclectic style. Funds for the construction of religious buildings allocated Yakulov merchant Hassan, born in the village of Upper Pine Vyatka province.

Initially chistpolskaya Nur Mosque was a three-axis enfilade United premises (main prayer hall, a small hall and lobby). The main hall was crowned with a keel-shaped dome drum and the small room and the lobby were consolidated and covered with gable roofs. A narrow staircase from the lobby led to the minaret. Later, to the main building on the north side was built surround the second floor of the lobby, and in the 1980s was made an auxiliary input. Unlike other religious buildings in the Soviet period, "Nur" is not closed, and remained open to the faithful in the most difficult times. Among the hundred mosques in Tatarstan Chistopol Muslim temple was the most authoritative and important mosque after Kazan "Marjani". In the period from 1893 to 1921 he performed the duties of an imam known public figure and teacher Muhametnazip Husainovich Amirhanov.

Today, the mosque "Nur" Chistopol is a monument of religious architecture Tatars mid-nineteenth century. Volume-spatial decision "Nura" echoes the Kazan mosque "Nurullah". Entrance to the ancient mosque free.