Культура мизаров у литовских татар: мизар в поселке Салакас

ENThe history of the Lithuanian Tatar graveyards (Lithuanian Tatars call their graveyard mizar or zirec) is closely related with the history of mosques in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (further - GDL). However, if the history of mosques in the GDL is pretty well represented in historiography, thus the history of mizars in Belorussia, Lithuania and Poland have never been considered in detail. All works at this research area could be divided into two parts: the first one, scientific publications, which were mostly listening mosques, Muslim congregations, mizars were mentioned occasionally, but their history was not considered in detail, the second one, the regional history materials, published in magazines and newspapers, which, in their turn, sufficiently widely considered the history of specific mosques and mizars. There are those Muslim graveyards on the territory of Lithuania: in Raižiai (Alytus district) - 14, in the Forty Tatars Village (Vilnius district) - 4, in Nemėžis (Vilnius district) - 1, Švenčionys - 1, in Milkūnai village (Švenčionys district) - 1, in Salakas village (Zarasai district) - 1, in Vilnius (Liepkalnis and destroyed Lukiškės graveyard) - 2, in Vinkšnupiai (Vilkaviškis district) - 1, Kena (Vilnius district) - 1 (does not exist anymore), Kozaklarai and Kazbėjai (Vilnius district) - 2 (do not exist anymore), Kaunas - 1 (does not exist anymore) and etc. This article investigates the culture of Lithuanian Tatar graveyards on the example of Muslim graveyard in Salakas village (Zarasai district, Lithuania).