The mosque stands in the Kazan Kremlin and is named after Kul Sharif, a religious scholar who served there. The article gives the original construction as the 16th century, with the infobox giving about 1552. It calls the original one of the largest mosques in Russia at the time. It is believed to have had minarets in the form of cupolas and tents.
Kul Sharif and his students died defending Kazan from Russian forces in the siege of 1552. Ivan the Terrible's forces then destroyed the mosque. The article's dates conflict, since the infobox gives 1552 as the construction date while the text gives it as the year of destruction.
The present building was constructed in the first years of the 21st century and was completed in 2005. The text calls it a replacement and the infobox a restoration. The article names no architect and gives no dimensions. The year here is the 2005 completion.
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