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The "Blue Mosque", (Template:Lang-hy, Kapuyt Mzkit or Գյոյ Մզկիթ, Gyoy Mzkit; Template:Lang-fa, Masjed-e Kabud, Template:Lang-tr.), is a mosque in Yerevan, Armenia. It was built in 1766, when the city was part of the Khanate of Erevan, during the reign of Hussein Ali,(and is thus sometimes referred to as "the mosque of Hussein Ali"). When Yerevan was captured by Russia in 1827 it was the largest of eight functioning mosques. The complex consisted of the main prayer hall, a library, and a medresse with 28 cells, all organised around a courtyard, with the overall complex occupying 7,000 square metres of land. It once had four 24-metre high minarets - however, three of them were later demolished.
Due to the secularist policies of the Soviet government, religious services at the Blue Mosque were stopped, and in 1931 the building was turned into the Museum of the City of Yerevan.
In the second half of the 1990s, the mosque underwent a heavy restoration, criticised as being aesthetically damaging, funded by Iran . Islamic religious services have now resumed within the mosque, which is the only Islamic shrine operating in Yerevan.
References
- H. Hovhannessian, "The Museums of Yerevan", Yerevan, 1986, p19-21.
- Brady Kiesling, "Rediscovering Armenia", 2nd edition, Yerevan, 2005, p37.
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