HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
KOND MOSQUE
1687
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Built by Haji Novruz Alibek
Located in the southern part of the Kond hill, in the densely built residential area at the beginning of Rustaveli Street, at 4 Rustaveli Street. The mosque was built by Haji Novruz Alibek in 1687, during the Persian rule. The complex is presented in Yerevan’s 1906-1911 master plan, compiled by city technician Boris Mehrabyan.
During the Soviet years, several families settled in
the mosque area, whose numerous reconstructions and changes distorted both the
original appearance and the spatial-planning structure of the mosque. It is
still inhabited today.
The Kond Mosque is a north-south elongated complex
around a rectangular, wide inner courtyard (dimensions: 30.4 x 29.1 m),
dominated by the mosque building with a dome. The structures are located around
the perimeter of the courtyard according to their special functional purpose.
Thus, on the eastern and western sides are almost identical, three cells each,
measuring 4.3 x 3.4 m. The northern and southern structures had a religious
nature, with the difference that the former was intended for prayers in winter,
and the latter in summer. The religious structure consists of three
interconnected buildings (of which the middle one with the dome is dominant),
as well as vaulted halls attached to the first from the east and west. The
mosque has two entrances on both sides of the southern religious volume group -
from the east and west. Moreover, between the first opening and the exit to the
courtyard, there are intermediate anterooms in both cases. The eastern and
western residential buildings consist of six similar structures. The building
material is baked brick. The domes are decorated with black, gray, and yellow
tiles. The southern dome and adjacent vaults are destroyed. The walls have
cracks.
The complex is interesting as a monument of Persian
architecture in Yerevan, as a type of religious building.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
