Zalkhan Mosque
| Zalkhan Mosque | |
|---|---|
Armenian: Զալխանի մզկիթ | |
An illustration of the former mosque, c. 1925 | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Shia (Twelver) (former) |
| Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Mosque (1687–1926) |
| Status | Destroyed |
| Location | |
| Location | 14-16 Abovyan Street, Yerevan |
| Country | Armenia |
Location of the destroyed mosque in modern-day Armenia | |
| Geographic coordinates | 40°10′52″N 44°31′01″E / 40.181°N 44.517°E |
| Architecture | |
| Type | Mosque architecture |
| Style | Islamic |
| Completed | 1098 AH (1686/1687CE) |
| Demolished | 1926 |
| 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
The mosque was between the Gala and Tepebashi massifs of Yerevan. It is believed to have been built between 1649 and 1685. According to H. F. B. Lynch, it was written on the mosque in Turkish and Arabic letters that it was built in 1098 AH (1686/1687CE).[3]
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 called the Intourist Hotel, after the Intourist agency; the name was changed in 1959 to the Yerevan Hotel. Following a 1999 reconstruction it was named 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
References
- ^ a b c d Mustafa, Nazim (2013). "Historic-architectural monuments of Irevan". Virtual Karabakh. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
- ^ Акопян, Т. X. (1977). Очерк истории Еревана (in Russian). Yerevan: Издательство Ереванского университета. p. 131.
- ^ Lynch, Harry F. B. (1901). Armenia: Travels and Studies. Vol. I: The Russian Provinces. London: Longman, Green, and Co. p. 283.
- ^ a b "UNION OF ARTISTS OF ARMENIA AND ARTISTS' HOUSE". Visit Yerevan. n.d. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
- ^ "«Երեւան» հյուրանոց' կենդանի պատմություն". mediamax.am.
- ^ "Golden Tulip Hotel in Yerevan". Hotels in Yerevan. n.d. Archived from the original on January 21, 2017. Retrieved December 30, 2024.
- ^ Mustafa, Nazim (2018). "İrəvanın tarixi – memarlıq abidələri". www.virtualkarabakh.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
- ^ Tanrıverdi, İsmayıl (2015). "İrəvan məscidləri". modern.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
- ^ ""Город минаретов": Мечети Эривани". azerhistory.com (in Russian). December 11, 2017. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Alishan, Gevont. Այրարատ [Ayrarat] (in Armenian). p. 311.
External links
Media related to Zal Khan Mosque at Wikimedia Commons