Mosques in Armenia

[Anoosh]

There is the Blue masque in Yerevan, and anther one or two in Sushi-Artsakh, is there more, even if they are in ruined situation, can someone help me with this.

Once I saw a program on TV and did not pay attention to the loations, now I want to know about them

 

Thanks, Anoosh

Edited May 5, 2008 by Anoosh

[MosJan]

Blue Mosque. Iranian Cultural Center

 

 

[MosJan]

and teh 2 in Artsax / Shushi

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=39.7610966&a...amp;m=a&v=2

[Anoosh]

Blue Mosque. Iranian Cultural Center

 

Sireli MosJan, I know this one and the two otherss in Shushi, I want more information, I searched a lot, but did not get anywhere, and I am sure there are more, at list I know there is one more in not very good situation in Armenia.

But thanks anyway for your input.

Anoosh

[irlandahay]

Sireli MosJan, I know this one and the two otherss in Shushi, I want more information, I searched a lot, but did not get anywhere, and I am sure there are more, at list I know there is one more in not very good situation in Armenia.

But thanks anyway for your input.

Anoosh

 

Unfortunately I did not get to visit the Blue Mosque. I did however see and urinate in both Shushi mosques during both of my visits.

 

The fact that they are not in good condition is a fantastic achievement of the Armenian people and I hope this situation stays the same for as long as it possibly can.

 

Islam is currently invading Europe and America and is destroying every culture, history, religion and race in its path.

It is our duty as freedom loving Armenians to obstruct that destructive and savage religion in any way we can.

 

so the fewer mosques in our country the better

[MosJan]

Sireli MosJan, I know this one and the two otherss in Shushi, I want more information, I searched a lot, but did not get anywhere, and I am sure there are more, at list I know there is one more in not very good situation in Armenia.

But thanks anyway for your input.

Anoosh

 

 

 

sorry Anoosh jan, the only other one i know / or have been to is in aghdam in liberated parts of Artsax

[MosJan]

see > http://www.hetq.am/eng/culture/532/

Whatever facts there are there, that's the reality. Azerbaijanis are telling lies more and more. The fact is that the Aghdam mosque is in the same condition as it was before. The Shushi mosques are standing erect – one of them was restored by the Shen Company, the other by the prelate of the Artshakh diocese, Archbishop Pargev himself. In other words, we have the opposite picture of what the Azerbaijanis are doing. Their mausoleums or “cumbazes” as they call them are in the same condition as when I saw them in Soviet times. The fact is that the Aghdam cumbazes , the Khojaly cemeteries, the Fizuli mosques, the monuments in the villages, are all intact.

 

[MosJan]

i did remember one more

 

it's in this topic

 

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?s=&showt...st&p=163781

 

 

[MosJan]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=mosque%20in%...sa=N&tab=wl

 

 

http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/national_energy_grid/armenia/graphics/arm-gas.jpg

 

if i'm not wrong - since we do have one more town in Armenia named Agarak it's in Ashtarak - this is agarak left of Meghri -

[MosJan]

some more info for you

 

http://yerevan.usembassy.gov/armenia.pdf

 

Mosques

At the time of the Russian conquest there were eight mosques in Yerevan. On

the capture of the city in 1827, the grateful and prudent inhabitants (both

Muslim and Christian) bestowed the fortress mosque on the conquerors to

serve as a Russian Orthodox church until a more suitable structure could be

built for the purpose a few years later. The largest mosque of Yerevan and

only one still preserved, the Gyoy or Gök-Jami, (gök means "sky-blue" in

Turkish) was built in AH 1179 or AD 1765/6 by the command of local ruler

Hussein Ali-Khan to be the main Friday mosque. The mosque portal and

minaret were decorated with fine tile work. The central court had a

fountain and stately elm trees, with rooms around it,. There was an

adjoining hamam and school. In Soviet times, the mosque housed the Museum

of the City of Yerevan. In the mid-1990s, the powerful Iranian quasistatal

foundation for religious propagation agreed to fund a total

restoration of the mosque with shiny new brick and tile. This restoration,

structurally necessary but aesthetically ambiguous, was largely finished in

1999. However, Armenian authorities, torn between the need to placate a

powerful neighbor and desire to minimize the practice of an unpopular

religion, have been slow to bless the reconsecration of the complex as a

mosque, suggesting it should serve as a cultural center instead. There is

supposed to have been a working mosque somewhere in Yerevan; made

superfluous by the 1988-91 population transfers, it burned down.

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[Anoosh]

Thank you very much my dear MosJan, I really appreciate your input.

You are gooooood.

 

Anosh

[Anoosh]

Irlandahay, thank you for your answer, I understand what you mean, I just wanted some information, not that I want mosques in Armenia...

Anoosh

[kakachik77]

Anoosh,

 

there is an armenian website that has a bunch of maps from different eras uploaded, I think it's called armenicum or armenica.org something like that, go there and search for the old yerevan maps, there is one map I remember from late 18th century that shows all the mosques as well as the quarters (like Armenian Quarter, Turkish Quarter etc.), it's a very interesting and enlightening map.

 

I have also read once about the azeri mosque being operational somewhere in yerevan prior to 1988, it was located in the middle of the "bak", but now it's gone.

 

good luck!

[irlandahay]

Irlandahay, thank you for your answer, I understand what you mean, I just wanted some information, not that I want mosques in Armenia...

Anoosh

 

 

I understand

 

I just wanted to point it out lol

[Aratta-Kingdom]

 

 

 

Samvel Karapetyan: appropriation of Armenian and Persian monuments peculiar to Azerbaijan

 

 

14.01.2009

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ There is one mosque and several shrines in the liberated territories surrounding Nagorno Karabakh. At that, the architects of the shrines are Armenians by origin, an Armenian historian said.

 

“The mosque of Gandzak built in 1620 under Shah Abbas and the mosque of Shushi built in the 18th century are the monuments of Persian architecture,” Samvel Karapetyan told a news conference today.

 

“Meanwhile, Baku is confident that all Muslim monuments belong to Azerbaijan,” he said, adding that Iran is indignant over appropriation of its monuments.

 

According to Trend Azeri news agency, TURKSOY international organization founded by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey and Turkmenistan in 1993 is preparing a list of historical and cultural monuments of Nagorno Karabakh to submit it to UNESCO.

 

[MyTerrain]

We don't need any more mosques. There's one for Iranians who preserved our churches there but NO MORE.

And the ugly disgusting mosque in Shushi must be demolished, destroy that POS.

[hosank]

aside from the blue mosque in yerevan, i have also seen the ruins of a turkish mosque near our home in yegheknadzor, in a small turkmen settlement that had been destroyed by a rockslide.

 

aside from that, there are 3 mosques (not two) in shushi. as mentionned, one of them has been renovated, the other ones are waiting for renovation. they are funded by Iranian money.

 

here is the site for the shushi revival fund, they have information on the mosques, and some pictures.

http://www.shushi.org/en/

 

as for the agdam mosque. it is mostly intact. naturally it is not in functionning condition, considering no muslim has lived there in 20 years, but it was not deliberately destroyed. there are also a couple azeri cemetaries in artsax.