Western Azerbaijan Heritage

Iravan until 1828, Erevan from 1828 to 1936.

Yerevan since 1936.

Architec­ture

In order to erase the historical past of the Julfa Caravanserai, which is consi­dered the tan­gible cultural he­­ri­tage of the history of Azer­baijan, the mo­nu­ments of Azer­baijani heritage in the city were blown up by Arme­nians and other buildings were built in their pla­ce.

Julfa caravanserai was located in Ira­van. This caravanserai was built of ba­ked bricks, hewn ashlar and marble and had a beautiful appearance. It was more famous as a caravanserai where Iranian goods imported from Iran were sold. The caravanserai, which consis­ted of 38 shops, was also active as a wholesale warehouse.

City and road dif­fered cara­van­­­­serais from each other. The cara­van­serai lo­cated around the ba­zaar in the city was con­­­sidered both an inn for merc­hants and a mar­­ket for sel­ling goods. The­­­­re were ma­ny shops around the caravan­se­rai. Any merc­hant who came to Ira­van would first take an emp­ty shop lo­ca­ted around the cara­van­serai and col­lect his goods here.