The Kruszyniany Mosque is a wooden mosque in the Polish village of Kruszyniany. King John III Sobieski assigned the village to Tatars who had fought for the Commonwealth against the Ottomans. A document from 1717 mentions a mosque, and the present building was probably built in the late 18th or early 19th century on the site of an earlier one. The infobox says 18th century, and the article names no architect or client.
The rectangular building measures about 33 by 43 feet (10 by 13 m) and is clad in wooden panels painted dark green, with a shingled roof. Two towers on the north side and a small windowless tower on the roof ridge have helmet-shaped roofs with crescent finials. A stone plaque by the women's entrance records a renovation in 1846.
Men and women worship in separate sections divided by a partition with a curtained opening. It is a Historic Monument of Poland.
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