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The Tatars of Finland are a Turkic people who espouse the Muslim faith .¹ They number approximately 800 and form a well-established and homogeneous religious, cultural and linguistic minority. The Tatars are the oldest Muslim minority in Finland and throughout the Nordic countries. They have their historical origins in Asia and their language belongs to the Turkic language family .² During the early years of Finland's status as an autonomous Grand Duchy under the Russian Tsars, Tatars were already being employed by the Russians on the construction of the Bomarsund fortress in Åland and the Suomenlinna /Sveaborg fortress on an island off Helsinki . Most of them returned to Russia. The ancestors of the present-day Tatars came to Finland from the 1870s to the mid 1920s from a group of some 20 villages in the Sergach region on the Volga River , to the southeast of Nizhni Novgorod , formerly Gorki. Most of them had been farmers but they settled in Finland as merchants trading in furs and textiles and chose initially to reside in Helsinki and its surrounding area. Tatars living in the city of Viipuri in Karelia resettled in Tampere and Helsinki when Karelia was ceded by Finland to the Soviet Union in the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940. Most Finnish Tatars continue to live in Helsinki and its surroundings. In 1925, the first Islamic congregation (Finlandiya Islam Cemaati = Finnish Islamic Congregation) was founded. Finland was thus the first Western European country to officially recognise an Islamic congregation. An act on the freedom of religion had been adopted in 1922. Today, the congregation has mosques in Helsinki and Järvenpää. A second congregation of Tatars was established in Tampere in 1943. Non-Tatar Muslims cannot become members of the Finnish Islamic Congregation. The Tatars are fully integrated into Finnish society and they are actively engaged in Finnish economic and cultural life in a wide array of professions that includes civil servants, entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, engineers and teachers. At the same time, they have succeeded in maintaining a distinct identity and in keeping the Tatar language alive by using it in family and private circles and also in their organisations. Since 1935, the Tatar Cultural Society (Finlandiya Türkleri Birligi) has organised cultural events in Tatar principally in the form of plays, folk music, folk dancing and poetry recitals. The pride of the sports club, Yolduz, established in 1945, is its football team. Both the cultural society and the sports club operate with the support of the Islamic Congregation, which thus contributes to the maintenance of the Tatar culture and language. From 1948 to 1969 there was a Tatar primary school (Türk Halk Mektebi) in Helsinki, which was partly subsidised by the Islamic Congregation and partly by the City of Helsinki. About half of the teaching was in Finnish and half in Tatar. Reform of the Finnish school system in the 1970s made the school unviable due to the small number of pupils and the conditions governing state subsidies. Instead, during the autumn and spring terms, after school hours, the Islamic Congregation provides regular teaching of Tatar language, culture, religion and history, with Tatar as the language of instruction. A Tatar kindergarten has existed since the 1950s. Summer courses in Tatar are now held at the Tatar Training Centre in Kirkkonummi, near Helsinki. It is remarkable that the small group of Finnish Tatars has managed to preserve proficiency in the Tatar language for as long as five generations. The publishing activity of the Tatars was once extensive but has now ceased. Past publications include religious texts, poetry, plays, novels as well as periodicals, the earliest from 1925. Tatars from Karelia resettled in Finland when Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1940. One notable Finnish Tatar is former soccer player Atik Ismail .³

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The Tatars of Finland ( Mishar :Финляндия татарлары; ) are ethnic Volga Tatar diaspora in Finland, who espouse the Muslim faith . They number approximately 1,000 and form a well-established and homogeneous religious, cultural and linguistic minority. The Tatars are the oldest Muslim minority in Finland and in the Nordic countries , and operate the Finnish Islamic Congregation ( ), the oldest state-recognised Muslim congregation in the Western world . Finnish Tatars (mainly Mishar Tatars ) have their historical origins in Eastern Europe and their language belongs to the Turkic language family . Student Union of the University of Helsinki .

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Ethnic group The Tatars of Finland ( Mishar : Финляндия татарлары; ; ) are an ethnic Volga Tatar diaspora in Finland, who espouse the Muslim faith . They number approximately 1,000 and form a well-established and homogeneous religious, cultural and linguistic minority. The Tatars are the oldest Muslim minority in Finland and in the Nordic countries and operate the Finnish Islamic Congregation, the oldest state-recognised Muslim congregation in the Western world . Finnish Tatars (mainly Mishar Tatars ) have their historical origins in Eastern Europe and their language belongs to the Turkic language family . Student Union of the University of Helsinki .

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Ethnic group Ethnic group The Finnish Tatars ( , , ) are an ethnic minority in Finland whose community has approximately 600–700 members. The community was formed between the late 1800s and the early 1900s when Mishar Tatar merchants emigrated from the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate of Russian Empire , and eventually settled in Finland. Tatars have the main building of their congregation in Helsinki . They have also founded cultural associations in different cities. They are the first Islamic community in Finland. The identity of the Finnish Tatars has had different reference points throughout their history in the country. In the early days, they were known by their religious identity (Muslim). Later in the 1900s, while still continuing the religious tradition, they started to emphasize their linguistic identity, and leaned more on to their Turkic roots. During those times, they were also influenced by Turkish culture. Finnish Tatars largely tried to replace the negatively thought of umbrella term "Tatars", either with the generic "Turks", "Northern Turks", or referring to their roots, "Volga Turks". (At times even identifying with Kipchaks ). Later on, the name Tatar has been adopted once again, though not without conflicts inside the community. The Tatars have maintained their own identity to this day, all the while having been integrated into the Finnish society. A growing sense of worry has emerged however about the future of the community due to increased mixed marriages.

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Tatar ethnic group in Northern Europe Ethnic group The Finnish Tatars ( Tatar : Финляндия татарлары , romanized: Finləndiyə tatarları , Finnish Tatar: Finlandiya tatarları , Finnish : Suomen tataarit ) are a Tatar ethnic group and minority in Finland , consisting of approximately 600–700 people. The community was formed between the late 1800s and the early 1900s, when Mishar Tatar merchants emigrated from the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire and eventually settled in Finland. Tatars have the main building of their congregation in Helsinki . They have also founded cultural associations in different cities. They are the oldest Muslim community in Finland . The identity of the Finnish Tatars has had different reference points throughout their history. In the early days, they were known by their religious identity ( Muslims ). When Republic of Turkey was established, Finnish Tatars, who speak a Turkic language , began identifying themselves as " Turks ". They were influenced by Turkish culture ; for example, they adopted the Latin alphabet , which replaced the previously used Arabic one. Nowadays, Finnish Tatars once again identify as Tatars and are very connected to Tatarstan . Its head , Rustam Minnikhanov , has visited the community. Finnish Tatars have also maintained their connections to Turkey, however. President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , among others, has visited their congregation. In 2024, a history of the Finnish Tatars by Dr. Ramil Belyayev, imam of the Finnish Tatar congregation, was translated into Turkish and released in Ankara . There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ). Tatary Findliandii: istoriia, integratsiia, sokhranenie identichnosti Татары Финляндии: история, интеграция, сохраненне идентичности [ Tatars of Finland: History, integration, preservation of identity ] (in Russian).

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