Blue Mosque

mosque in Yerevan, Armenia

Key facts

Affiliation: Islam
Branch tradition: Shia (Twelver)
Ecclesiastical or organizational status: Mosque (until mid-1920s) Secular use (mid-1920s – 1996) Mosque (since 1996) Cultural center (since 2015)
Status: Active
Location: 12 Mashtots Avenue , Yerevan
Country: Armenia
Type: Mosque architecture
Style: Iranian
Founder: Hoseyn Ali Khan
Completed: 1179 AH (1765/1766 CE) 1996 (restored)
Minaret height: 24 m (79 ft)

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Wikidata facts

Area: 7000
Image: Մզկիթ «Կապույտ» (Գյոյ մզկիթ), ArmAg.jpg
Height: 24

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Commons category: Blue Mosque, Yerevan
native label: مسجد کبود‎
inception: 1768-00-00
street address: Մեսրոպ Մաշտոցի պող. 12

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The Blue Mosque (Armenian: Կապույտ մզկիթ, romanized: Kapuyt mzkit’; Persian: مسجد کبود, romanized: Masjed-e Kabūd) 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.