This is a photo of the Kalmyk <i>khurul</i>, or community hall, at the Tsagan Aman settlement in the Astrakhan region. 
<ul><li>The wood-based, architectural design of this khurul was strongly influenced by rural Russian church architecture. This khurul was destroyed by the Bolsheviks and was only recently replaced several years ago. A picture of the new Buddhist khurul can be found at</li></ul><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.buddhisminkalmykia.ru/?pa...c4655908ec0ec2">[1]</a>. pre-1917 image
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3512439" class="extiw" title="d:Q3512439"><span title="Russian photographer">Maxim Petrovich Dmitriev</span></a>
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before 1917 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1917-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div> image
Scan of old postcard