On Saturday, January 16 at 14.00 at Neitsitorn (Maiden Tower) Toomas Abiline will give a lecture on „Islam in Tallinn. Contacts from past to nowadays“
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If we consider Meka as center of the world, then Tallinn is located on the brink of the world. In this case, what connections might Tallinn have with Islam? Today, Islam is a daily topic of conversation. Tallinn’s contacts with Islam reach back centuries. Historian Toomas Abiline gives about Tallinn’s contacts with Islam during the Livonian War, about the Tatar community which has been here centuries, and about Islam in today’s Tallinn.