Mirali agha sacred place

Monument date:
1980
Placement /
Previous toponym:

It is located in Aghbulagvil­la­ge in Cham­bar­kend villa­ge of Goycha mahal.

Placement /
Current toponym:

In 19.04.1991 the name of Aghbulag villa­ge was changed and named Aghberk

Classification:

Archi­tecture

Current situation

It existed until deportation in 1948-1953. Du­ring the depor­tation, Mirali ag­ha was mo­ved to Beylagan along with his grave by his child­ren. The buil­ding with the remaining shrine there was destroyed

Information:

Mirali agha Mashadi Mir-javad agha oghlu (1880-1979), one of the respected clergies of Goychi, Garagoyunlu, Shi­nikh regions, Gazakh and Tovuz regions, was born in the village of Hajimugan, Kavar district, Bayazid mahal in a family with religious knowledge. Agha Mirali gained fame as a wise elder of the area, self-confident, a holy man of religion, a messenger of truth and justice. One of the vows of the residents of the area was the belief “I swear to Mirali agha”. The house where Mirali Agha lived in the village of Aghbulag, and his grave in the village cemetery, the quadrangular shrine of Imamzadeh, built by his son Haji Mirhuseyn Agha (1930-2005) in the 1980s from red and white brick, covered with black camel's eye and marble was a place of pilgrimage for the people, it was a holy and spiritual sacred place of faith. Donations collected from this place were distributed to needy families in the village. The sacred place was called the Mirali place after its owner Mirali.

 

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