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Zalkhan Mosque

Coordinates: 40°10′52″N 44°31′01″E / 40.181°N 44.517°E / 40.181; 44.517
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Zalkhan Mosque
Armenian: Զալխանի մզկիթ
An illustration of the former mosque, c. 1925
Religion
AffiliationShia (Twelver) (former)
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusMosque (1687–1926)
StatusDestroyed
Location
Location14-16 Abovyan Street, Yerevan
CountryArmenia
Zalkhan Mosque is located in Armenia
Zalkhan Mosque
Location of the destroyed mosque in modern-day Armenia
Geographic coordinates40°10′52″N 44°31′01″E / 40.181°N 44.517°E / 40.181; 44.517
Architecture
TypeMosque architecture
StyleIslamic
CompletedAH 1098 (1686/1687)
Demolished1926
Dome(s)One

The Zalkhan Mosque (Armenian: Զալխանի մզկիթ), also sometimes called Zal khan Mosque or Sheher Mosque,[1] was a Twelver Shia mosque, located in the Shahar quarter of Yerevan, in what is modern-day Armenia.[2] The mosque was built in c. 1687 in what was then Iran, and is believed to have been demolished in 1926.

History

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The former mosque was located between the Gala and Tepebashi massifs of Yerevan. It is believed that the Zalkhan Mosque was built between 1649 and 1685. According to H. F. B. Lynch, it was written on the mosque in Turkish, in Arabic characters, that the mosque was built in AH 1098 (1686/1687).[3] It is understood that the Zalkhan Mosque was built after the 1679 earthquake.

In 1926, the great hall of the mosque was demolished[4] and a state-owned hotel of the Armenian SSR, the first hotel in Soviet Armenia,[5] was built in its place.[1] It was known as the "Intourist Hotel", named after the Intourist agency, and its name was changed in 1959 to the Yerevan Hotel. Following a 1999 reconstruction, the hotel was again renamed as the Golden Tulip Hotel Yerevan,[6] located at 14 Abovyan Street.

An archival document from 1949, kept in the State Archives of the Republic of Azerbaijan, states that the Zalkhan Mosque was used as an exhibition hall.[1]

The purpose of the madrasa of the Zalkhan Mosque, which has a two-story building and many cells, changed after the Second World War.[1] As of 2018, the exhibition hall of the House of Artists was located in that building,[7][8][9][10][11] at 16 Abovyan Street.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Mustafa, Nazim (2013). "Historic-architectural monuments of Irevan". Virtual Karabakh. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  2. ^ Акопян, Т. X. (1977). Очерк истории Еревана (in Russian). Yerevan: Издательство Ереванского университета. p. 131.
  3. ^ Lynch, Harry F. B. (1901). Armenia: Travels and Studies. Vol. I: The Russian Provinces. London: Longman, Green, and Co. p. 283.
  4. ^ a b "UNION OF ARTISTS OF ARMENIA AND ARTISTS' HOUSE". Visit Yerevan. n.d. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  5. ^ "«Երեւան» հյուրանոց' կենդանի պատմություն". mediamax.am.
  6. ^ "Golden Tulip Hotel in Yerevan". Hotels in Yerevan. n.d. Archived from the original on January 21, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
  7. ^ Mustafa, Nazim (2018). "İrəvanın tarixi – memarlıq abidələri". www.virtualkarabakh.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  8. ^ Tanrıverdi, İsmayıl (2015). "İrəvan məscidləri". modern.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  9. ^ ""Город минаретов": Мечети Эривани". azerhistory.com (in Russian). December 11, 2017. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
  10. ^ Chopin, Jean-Marie (1852). Исторический памятник состояния Армянской области в эпоху ея присоединения к Российской Империи [Historical monuments of the Armenian oblast] (in Russian). Императорская Академия Наук. p. 867.
  11. ^ Alishan, Gevont. Այրարատ [Ayrarat] (in Armenian). p. 311.
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