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Abbas Mirza Mosque, Yerevan

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 19th century persian mosque in yerevan”. Today it says “seventeenth-century twelver shia islam mosque”.
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Destroyed mosque in Armenia Remains of mosque in 1925. Photographer Fridtjof Nansen Abbas Mirza Mosque ( ( Abas Mirzayi mzkit' ), , ) was a nineteenth-century Shia mosque in Yerevan , Armenia .1 Abbas Mirza the eighteenth century, the castle was built by the mosque in Yerevan. This mosque was built at the beginning of the nineteenth century, during the reign of the last khan (governor) of the Erivan Khanate , Huseyn Khan . It was named Abbas Mirza Jami, after the Persian crown prince Abbas Mirza , the son of Fat′h-Ali Shah . The façade of mosque was covered in green and blue glass, reflecting Persian architectural styles. After the capture of Yerevan by the Russians, the mosque was used as an arsenal. The mosque was turned into barracks after it was conquered by Russian troops. During the Soviet era the mosque, along with Christian buildings, was derelict and currently only the frame of the mosque has been preserved.2

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a 19th century persian mosque in yerevan

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seventeenth-century twelver shia islam mosque

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