Loru gala mosque

Monument date:
XVII-XVIII c
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It is located on the left bank of the Kolagiran Ri­ver in Dagh Borchah district, 4 km east of the city of Jelaloghlu (Stepanavan), in Loru city

Placement /
Current toponym:

Dagh Borchali was named Lo­ru, Kolagiran river - Dzora­get, Jalaloglu - Stepanavan.

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Architec­ture

Current situation

Armenian ele­ments were ad­ded to the tomb­stone in front of the mos­que (a cross was added) and it was turned into a church by Armenians. A la­yer of green grass covered it. On the right and left side of the entrance, the sto­nes taken from the fallen places are stacked. Ac­cor­­ding to Ar­me­nian sources, the­re is no mos­que in Loru fort­ress. Howe­ver, both the archi­tec­ture of the building and the mihrab in the southern di­rec­tion (towards Mec­ca) prove that it belongs to Muslims .

Information:

Loru Gala Mosque is located inside the castle. It was built in the lands of Wes­tern Azerbaijan and is one of the mos­ques that have been identified as exis­ting. The interior architecture of the mos­que is similar to the Govharagha Mosque in Shusha. It has a wide and high ceiling structure. Marble stones are laid on the ground. To the right is a window and a small green table 173. Loru mahal is one of the historical districts of Azerbaijan and one of the nine districts of the Safavid state, the Karabakh Beylarbey, the center of which is the city of Loru. In 1921, an agreement was reached bet­ween the Bolshevik governments of Georgia and Armenia on the transfer of Loru to Armenia.

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