WHICH ARE THE AZERBAIJANI MONUMENTS IN ARTSAKH?
Aysor.am
Saturday, October 17
Recently in the conference of Islamic countries different speeches
have been read in which was said that "Armenia is destroying monuments
of world culture in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan". Today
during the meeting with the journalists Samvel Karapetyan the head of
the Research on Armenian Architecture Organization, explained which
the so called "Azerbaijani" monuments were.
"The most ancient of the monuments that the Tatars of Caucasus,
who today call themselves Azerbaijani, have is the Mosque of Aghdam
city, built in 1868 – 1870", – said S. Karapetyan motioning that
regardless this fact during the Soviet times the Azerbaijani as a
result of their own investigation all the monuments found in Artsakh
have called Azerbaijani.
According to the facts of S. Karapetyan in the region of Artsakh the
Muslim monuments can be seen since 14th century. There are no mosques
there, but are exceptionally monuments on graves or mausoleum.
"Those mausoleums are monuments of Armenian architecture. And even
experts of different foreign countries think that the architects of
these monuments is master Shahik, the architect of the St. Astvatsatsin
church of Yeghvard", – stressed S. Karapetyan.
As an example the architect presented a mausoleum on the right bank
of Khachen river which belongs to the Armenian culture by the images
and the crosses in the curved pictures of the monument.
He mentioned that in the region of Artsakh there is also several
monuments preserved from the times of the Turkmen tribes, which have
ordered, probably the Muslim sheikhs but the architects have been
exceptionally Armenians.
The following period of the Muslim monuments constructed in Artsakh
region, according to the investigators, was the Persian period. There
are Muslim monuments of 16-18 centuries in Artsakh region, which
except the besides the mausoleum monuments have built also Mosques
and they too are Persian monuments. Only then the perio oming.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress