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The Lost Mosque(s) in the Citadel of Qajar Yerevan: Architecture and Identity, Iranian and Local Traditions in the Early 19th Century

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2009
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Ritter, M. (2009). The Lost Mosque(s) in the Citadel of Qajar Yerevan: Architecture and Identity, Iranian and Local Traditions in the Early 19th Century. Iran and the Caucasus, 13(2), 239–279. https://doi.org/10.1163/157338410X12625876281109

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Abstract

The mosques in the citadel of Yerevan are lost today and almost unknown. Here, the most significant of them is reconstructed from visual and literary sources, documented by unpublished photographs, and related to the early Qajar period under the last Iranian governor Husayn Khān, prior to the Russian conquest of Yerevan in 1827. The second mosque in the citadel is attributed to the Ottoman period; the third one remains uncertain. While the type of the Qajar mosque is compared to earlier buildings in Yerevan, notably the 18th-century G

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  • Ritter, Markus
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13

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2

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239

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279

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Journal Article

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Islamic religious architecture mosque qajar iran yerevan Armenia eriwan Armenien sardar historicism moschee kadscharen persien

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English

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2009

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2011-03-30

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1573-384X

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614 since deposited on 2011-03-30
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267 since deposited on 2011-03-30
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Ritter, M. (2009). The Lost Mosque(s) in the Citadel of Qajar Yerevan: Architecture and Identity, Iranian and Local Traditions in the Early 19th Century. Iran and the Caucasus, 13(2), 239–279. https://doi.org/10.1163/157338410X12625876281109

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