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Yerevan Blue Mosque has many visitors
tert.am
12:55 - 17.11.12
Yerevan's Blue Mosque has many visitors especially in spring and summer months.
Tourists visiting Armenia and Armenians married with Muslims visit the
mosque too, Iranian-Armenian Lena Hakobyan, graduate of Yerevan State
University, told Tert.am. She is working in Yerevan Blue Mosque for
already ten years as a guide, librarian and translator.
`We do not have any restrictions, those who want may visit the mosque.
We have a permanent exhibition of Iranian traditional art, we have a
wonderful library connected with Iran's National library through
computers,' Hakobyan said.
Citing Iranian FARS news agency, Panorama.am reports that the Blue
Mosque in Yerevan will be included in UNESCO cultural heritage list.
It was stated by deputy head of Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization
Masoud Alavian Sadr.
The Iranian official said that at the meeting with Armenia's Culture
Minister Hasmik Poghosyan an arrangement has been reached to undertake
steps after reconstruction of the mosque to include it in the cultural
heritage list.
Free classes of Persian language are being conducted in the mosque,
though recently the organizers are taking some money for film
presentations or other expenses.
Yerevan Blue Mosque was built in 18th century when Yerevan Hussein Ali
Khan built nine mosques in Yerevan. After the Russian-Iranian war when
Eastern Armenia passed under Russia's control only one of the mosques
was preserved.
During the soviet years the Blue Mosque operated as Yerevan History Museum.
The Blue Mosque started functioning 21 years ago after Iran restored it.
tert.am
12:55 - 17.11.12
Yerevan's Blue Mosque has many visitors especially in spring and summer months.
Tourists visiting Armenia and Armenians married with Muslims visit the
mosque too, Iranian-Armenian Lena Hakobyan, graduate of Yerevan State
University, told Tert.am. She is working in Yerevan Blue Mosque for
already ten years as a guide, librarian and translator.
`We do not have any restrictions, those who want may visit the mosque.
We have a permanent exhibition of Iranian traditional art, we have a
wonderful library connected with Iran's National library through
computers,' Hakobyan said.
Citing Iranian FARS news agency, Panorama.am reports that the Blue
Mosque in Yerevan will be included in UNESCO cultural heritage list.
It was stated by deputy head of Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization
Masoud Alavian Sadr.
The Iranian official said that at the meeting with Armenia's Culture
Minister Hasmik Poghosyan an arrangement has been reached to undertake
steps after reconstruction of the mosque to include it in the cultural
heritage list.
Free classes of Persian language are being conducted in the mosque,
though recently the organizers are taking some money for film
presentations or other expenses.
Yerevan Blue Mosque was built in 18th century when Yerevan Hussein Ali
Khan built nine mosques in Yerevan. After the Russian-Iranian war when
Eastern Armenia passed under Russia's control only one of the mosques
was preserved.
During the soviet years the Blue Mosque operated as Yerevan History Museum.
The Blue Mosque started functioning 21 years ago after Iran restored it.