 Jakub Szynkiewicz

Jakub Szynkiewicz (April 16, 1884 Lyakhavichy, Russia (now Belarus) – November 1, 1966, Waterbury, Connecticut) was a Doctor of Philosophy as well as Oriental Studies, chosen as the first mufti of the newly independent Poland in 1925.Jakub Szynkiewicz was born to a Tatar family on 16 April 1884 in Lyakhavichy (Lachowicze) in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (from 1921 to 1939 part of Poland, today western Belarus).