One of the oldest Cathedral mosques of Tatarstan is located in the historic center of the city of Chistopol. The wooden building of the mosque "Nur" in the national romantic style was built in 1857 on the project previously burned on this spot a Muslim temple in the eclectic style. Funds for the construction of religious buildings was identified by the merchant Hasan Yakulov, a native of the village of Upper Pine Vyatka province.

Originally Chistopolskaya Nur mosque was a three enfilade United along the axis of the room (the main prayer hall, small hall and lobby). The main hall was crowned keeled beneath the dome, and the small hall and the vestibule were combined and covered with a gable roof. A narrow staircase from the lobby leads to the minaret. Later to the main building on the North side was added to surround the second floor of the vestibule, and in the 1980s was made an auxiliary input. Unlike other religious buildings during the Soviet period, "Nur" was not closed and remained open for the faithful in the most difficult times. Among the hundred mosques of Tatarstan Chistopol Muslim temple was the most influential and important mosque after Kazan "Marjani". In the period from 1893 to 1921 duties of the Imam sang the famous social activist and educator Muhamatnozim husainovich Amirkhanov.

Nowadays, the mosque "Nur" in Chistopol is a monument of religious architecture of the Tatars in the mid-nineteenth century. Spatial decision "Nur" echoes of the Kazan mosque "Nurulla". The entrance to the ancient mosque is free.