Urud village madrasa
Near Urud village, Garakilsa district, Zangazur mahal
Zangazur mahal, Garakilsa (from 01.03.1940 - Sisian) district, Urud village was renamed Vorotan from 03.07.1968.
Architecture
In 1918, during the attack of the Armenian terrorist groups on the village, the village madrasa was burned.
The Urud village madrasah was built by wealthy benefactors of the village. It was located near the center of the village. The madrasa consisted of a hall and several rooms. There were also people from the surrounding villages who came to the madrasa to study. There were mollakhanas in almost all large villages of Zangazur district. In the 1880s, 491 madrasahs, 21 primary schools, and 6 spiritual schools were operating in Zangazur. Private wealthy people provided financial and moral support to these schools. People's writer Ali Valiyev, who is from this land, wrote about the Urud madrasa, which provided 9 years of education: "Fatullah, who received higher education in Najaf (Iraq) and earned the right to become a mullah, Sadiq, who graduated from the second-level Russian school in Gorus, famous poet Lalin Baglamish, poet Mirza Huseyn lived in Urud. There were far more people who had studied in Urud, literate people, people who write a poem, and people who came from other villages. Molla Baghirlilar family, Molla Samih Bey, and Molla Fatullah taught in the madrasa in Urud village until 1918. In addition to religious lessons, secular subjects were also taught here. Mirza Sadigh Akhundzadeh, who teaches here, was a graduate of the higher religious madrasa in Tabriz.” Benefactors paid the expenses of those studying in the Urud madrasah.
The madrasa taught not only religion and sharia, but also mathematics, history, literature and other subjects. Due to Zangazur's proximity to the border with the Ottoman and Qajar states, there were many clerics who received spiritual education in Theran, Istanbul, Mashhad, Tabriz, Najaf, and Karbala, studied Islam, Sharia, and Arabic-Persian languages perfectly and returned to uezd.