Blue Mosque
Also known as: Blue Mosque
mosque in Yerevan, Armenia
Key facts
- Built
- 1768
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Overview
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The Blue Mosque is a Shia mosque on Mesrop Mashtots Avenue in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It was built in 1768 and is classed within Afsharid and Persian architecture. The building is registered as a cultural heritage monument in Armenia. It is today described as the country's only mosque in active use. Its links to the Persian cultural sphere are visible both in its architectural tradition and in the support that enabled its revival in recent decades.
History
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The mosque was built in 1768. During the Soviet period it ceased to function as a place of worship and was used as a museum of the history of Yerevan.
After Armenia became independent of the Soviet Union, the building was renovated with the support of the Iranian government, and religious activity resumed there.
From Wikipedia
The Blue Mosque (Armenian: Կապույտ մզկիթ, romanized: Kapuyt mzkit’; Persian: مسجد کبود, romanized: Masjed-e Kabūd; Turkic: Gök Jami) is an 18th-century Iranian Twelver Shia mosque, located in Yerevan, Armenia. It was commissioned by Hoseyn Ali Khan, the khan of the Erivan Khanate. It is one of the oldest extant structures in central Yerevan and the most significant structure from the city's Iranian period. It was the largest of the eight mosques of Yerevan in the 19th century and is the only active mosque in Armenia today.
The mosque was secularized in the 1920s and housed the History Museum of Yerevan for more than five decades. Following Armenia's independence, the mosque was renovated with support from the Iranian government and again started operating as a mosque, serving the Muslims residing in Armenia.
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Sources
Wikipedia (ar): https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B2%D8%B1%D9%82_(%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86)
Wikipedia (de): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaue_Moschee_(Jerewan)
Wikipedia (en): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mosque,_Yerevan
Wikipedia (es): https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezquita_Azul_(Erev%C3%A1n)
Wikipedia (fa): https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF_%DA%A9%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AF_(%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86)
Wikipedia (fr): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosqu%C3%A9e_bleue_d%27Erevan
Wikipedia (id): https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Biru_Yerevan
Wikipedia (ru): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C_(%D0%95%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD)
Wikipedia (tr): https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6k_Camii
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