Medyany village in Nizhny Novgorod was founded in the fourteenth century, immigrants from the territory of the Golden Horde. The name of the village comes from the river Most Medyana flowing through the old Tatar settlement. In the early twentieth century was a sprawling settlement of Muslim religious center with five Cathedral Mosque. By 1952, all the mosques of Islamic villages were destroyed.

In 1980 the newly established Muslim community activity begins with the realization of the project of construction of religious and educational complex, which included a mosque, museum, club, hotel and hospital .  From 1992 to 1994, .  It was building the main mosque of Rashid, named after the patron of the mother and the chairman of the religious community of F . A . Gulmanova .  The author was the architect of the Muslim shrines Ilyas Tazhiev (author of the mosque on Poklonnaya Hill), embodied in the stone image of a flower with five petals, three of which are topped with cupolas .  The interior (verses from the Koran and floral pattern) done in white and gold colors .  Under the mosque it was organized museum, dedicated to the history of Nizhny Novgorod Tatars multiple exposures .  In front of the monument to Ya-Sin, which is an open-work 25-meter stele with six faces, between which are attached metal plates with a prayer dedicated to all Muslims who died at the hands of Soviet power .  The religious and educational complex in addition to the monument and mosques included: House F . TO .  Vakhitova (Fateh-Mullah), a memorable place of burial of the Muslim clergy and memorials lost mosques . 

Today Rashid mosque is the best example of modern Islamic architecture in Russia, and the spiritual center of the Tatar - object of cultural heritage of regional significance.