Western Azerbaijan Heritage

Zahmat villa­ge, Zangibasar district, Zangi­basar mahal. 

Hachaparag village since 3.01.1935 - Zahmat, since 19.04.1991 - Khachpar.

Architec­ture

After the mass deportation of the Darvish neigh­borhood in 1988, most of the ancient buil­dings there were demolished by Armenians.

Darvish neighborhood was considered one of the ancient and historical places of the village. It was a place where more people with knowledge, religious know­ledge, educated in Turkey, Iran and Iraq were settled. The residents of this place who possessed knowledge and wisdom used their houses as a madrasa-school and library, and provided religious and secular education to those who came from the village and surrounding villages. Most of the houses here differed from the houses in the village by their appearance and architecture. The followers of this gene­ration, brothers Haji Akhund and Molla Mustafa, took an active part in the orga­nization and holding of religious cere­mo­nies. In 1918, the brothers Haji Akhund and Molla Mustafa were mercilessly kil­led during the massacre committed by Ar­me­nian terrorist groups in Zahmat.

The neighbor­hood of Darvi­shes, one of the ancient tribes of the village of Zah­mat, were the bearers and continuers of the religious-mys­tical world­view of Sufism from the point of view of ge­nealogy.