Garachanta village mosque
In the village of Garachanta (Azizbayov), 4 km southwest of the district center, in the Amasiya district of Aghbaba mahal
The first name of Garachanta village was Garachalma, then it was changed to Garachantey, Garachanta, Azizbayov on 4.05.1939, and Aregnadem on 19.04.1991.
Architecture
It was burned by the Dashnaks in 1918, and then repaired by the villagers. It was destroyed after the 1988 deportation.
The mosque was built in 1909 with the financial assistance of Hagverdi and Ellaz. The stone place in front of the Karbalai Hero's house in the village was an ancient cemetery. It was also called Duz Daghi. There were ancient stone horse and ram statues in the cemetery. This also shows that the village is an ancient Turkic-Oghuz homeland 175. The toponym Garachanta was created based on the family name. Patronim is a simple toponym in structure. There were 348 people in the village in 1886, 440 people in 1897, 665 people in 1908, 729 people in 1914, 547 people in 1922, 670 people in 1926, 688 people in 1931, 774 in 1939. 803 people in 1959, 1442 people in 1970, 1490 in 1980, 1600 in 1987 were only Azerbaijanis. In 1988, when the mass resettlement of Azerbaijanis from Armenia began, the village population left the village. According to some information at the end of 1988, the population of the village was 1750 people .