Kruszyniany

Kruszyniany

Infobox Settlement
name = Kruszyniany
settlement_type = Village
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Podlaskie
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Sokółka
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Krynki
elevation_m =
population_total = 160
website =

Kruszyniany IPA-pl| [|k|r|u|sz|y|'|ń|a|n|y|] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krynki, within Sokółka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus.

The village has a population of 160. It was primarily a Tatar settlement. Today only minority of the village is Tatar and Muslim. Sites of interest in the village include wooden mosque from 18th century (one of the two oldest in Poland), Muslim cemetery and Eastern Orthodox cemetery with cerkiew.

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