BLUE MOSQUE IS BEING RECONSTRUCTED IN YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MARCH 14.ARMINFO. The reconstruction works of the Blue
Mosque in the center of Yerevan are in full swing. Shapour Lotfi,
coordiantor of the construction works, said in the interview to ARMINFO
that the reconstruction of rites’ hall of the mosque will be completed
in summer.
He said that the reconstruction works began in the summer of 2005.
According to the intergovernmental agreement on reconstruction of
the mosque signed between Armenia and Iran, only the South-Western
and the Northern parts of the mosque were reconstructed. A minaret
standing for 24 meters, 28 pavillions, library, the main hall, the
cupola and the yard are situated in this part.
“The Blue Mosque” covers 7 thousand cubic meters of territory and was
built in 1765. The Yerevan’s History and Nature Museum was situated
in the territory of the mosque after the World War II till 1995.