Poland's tiny Muslim Tatar community taps deep roots

But three crescents mark it out as a mosque, and a rare footprint of Islam in this overwhelmingly Catholic nation of 38.5 million people.

Kruszyniany is home to the descendants of Muslim Tatars who came here three centuries ago.

The village of 160 people on the Belarussian border played host Tuesday to Britain's Prince Charles, on an official visit to Poland.

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