Juma - Jami - a mosque in Eupatoria

The building of Juma - Jami in Kezeleve began in 1552 during the reign of Khan Devlet I Geraya and was completed during the reign of his successor Mechmed II Geraya in 1564, according to the project of Khoja Mimar Sinan Aga - the main architect of Sultan Suleiman I the Great. Two very valuable relics were stored in this mosque: a 14th or 15th century Koran, which was valued more, than the mosque itself, and a document with the signatures of 18 Crimean khans, who ruled this peninsula until it was annexed to the Russian Empire. Crimean khans, after receiving the rights of khans in Istanbul and on their way to Bakhchisaray, disembarked in Gezleve. Here, in the Juma-Jami Mosque, the Khan declared his right to power to his subjects and signed the document. According to some data, the relics were still in the mosque in 1927 and now they are kept in one of the museums of St. Petersburg, according to others, they disappeared during the Second World War. Since the end of building, the mosque has been rebuilt and restored several times. A few years ago, the mosque was fully restored according to all scientific rules, with the restoration of all lost details and the removal of architectural sub-layers. Thus, in 1985, two minarets were rebuilt, one of which had collapsed in 1665, the other in 1836. During the Soviet rule, the house of prayer was closed as a religious institution and used as a warehouse for agricultural products and later for building materials. Since the mid-eighties of the 20th century, it has been an architectural monument and museum, and in 1990 it was returned to the faithful.

A medium-complexity, well-detailed model of an architectural monument, suitable for a modeler of almost any experience, but for beginners it is better to glue it under the supervision of a more experienced colleague and not as one of the first more complex models.