The Pink Mosque is located next to the terminal of a tram line in the Novaya Tatarskaya Sloboda. From its appearance it is unclear why it is called the Pink Mosque as now it is green in colour. It is also known as the Nizenkaya Bukhara Mosque after the Uzbek city. The mosque was built by the merchant Musa Apanaev in 1808 and became the main Islamic centre in the Novaya Tatarskaya Sloboda. However it was closed in 1931 and only reopened in 1991 by which time the Novaya Tatarskaya Sloboda had become an industrial area.