Almaty Central Mosque is one of the largest mosques in Almaty, and in Kazakhstan. Designed for 7000 visitors, it was built on the site of the old mosque that dated to 1890 and caught fire in 1987. The foundation of the mosque was filed in 1993, and construction was completed in 1999. In 2000, the large dome was decorated by verses from the Quran rendered by Turkish calligraphers.

On December 22, 2006, the National Bank of Kazakhstan depicted the mosque on a limited-edition 500-tenge coin of sterling silver.

Today there are more than 2300 mosques on the territory of Kazakhstan but one of the largest and most beautiful can be considered by right the Central Mosque of Almaty. It was built relatively recently, in 1999, on the site of old mosque, which has been staying there since 1890. In 100 years it fell to emergency state and it was decided to build the new mosque.

The construction was began in 1993, but after foundation laying the process was stopped and the construction was completed only 6 years later. When all works were finished, the city saw the wonderful new mosque with huge blue dome. It is of 20 meters in diameter and it rises above 36 meters. And minaret with height of 47 meters stands close to the mosque. From outside the mosque is the huge white building with blue domes, where it can be distinguished the inscriptions on Arabic language, taken from Koran. Inside of mosque is designed with luxury, but in such manner that the interior seems quite plain and such combination of rich decoration and religious simplicity create the harmonic image of mosque, which one will not want to leave from.

Religion in Kazakhstan is about 70% Muslim by head of population, with other religions making up the remaining 30%. As you would expect from these statistics, the Central Mosque is a magnificent building, constructed in the Timurid style of architecture.  The Mosque looks ancient, with its Turkish calligraphy, domes and minarets. A truly magnificent building and the biggest mosque in Kazakhstan can accommodate up to 7000 worshippers. Religious tolerance is a feature of Kazakhstan and visitors to the mosque have reported being invited in to look around, even though they are not of that faith.