Lipka Tartars are descendants of Muslim Turkic migrants who settled in the Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the height of immigration to the United States from Southern and Eastern Europe, Lipka Tartars traveled to the U.S. alongside their Christian and Jewish neighbors and formed a tight-knit immigrant community in Brooklyn. Over the years, as people aged and moved away, the community has fragmented. But, now a collection of American Lipka Tartars have taken steps to reconnect with their cultural and religious identity. Read this story at the link below.
