everal distinct but related Tatar communities have settled in New York City over the past century or more. Soon after arriving in Ellis Island in the late 19th/early 20th century from Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus, Lipka ("Lithuanian") Tatars from western areas of the Tatar-speaking world bought a building on 104 Powers St. in their newfound home of Williamsburg — establishing North America's oldest surviving mosque. At its most active from the 1930s to 1960s, the mosque today still attracts Tatars from the wider region who return on special days like Kurban Bayrami (the name for Eid al-Adha). A later influx of Tatars from various backgrounds, including many from the former Soviet Union, have a long-standing community in eastern Queens, where the American Tatar Association makes its home in College Point, while some Volga Tatars are part of the Russian-speaking matrix of Brighton Beach.