Blue Mosque

The Blue Mosque is a Shia mosque from the 18th century in Yerevan, Armenia. Huseyn Ali Khan, Khan of the Iranian Erivan Khanate, commissioned it. It is one of the oldest structures still standing in central Yerevan and the most important structure from the city's Iranian history. In the nineteenth century, it was the largest of Yerevan's eight mosques.

The mosque was secularized in the 1920s and hosted the Yerevan History Museum for almost five decades. Following Armenia's independence, the mosque was repaired with the help of the Iranian government and reopened as a mosque, serving Iranians in Yerevan.

The Blue Mosque is Armenia's only operating mosque, despite the country's modest Muslim population (between 812 and 1,000 or 0.03 percent of the total population)

Location: Yerevan