Khachin-Darbatli Mausoleum ( az, Xaçındərbətli türbəsi) is a

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of Katava Hoja the son of Musa (or Kutlu ibn Musa), located close to the Xaçındərbətli village of the

Agdam District Aghdam District ( az, Ağdam rayonu) is one of the 66 administrative divisions of Azerbaijan. It is located in the west of the country and belongs to the Karabakh Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Khojaly, Kalbajar, Tartar ...

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and was built by ustad Shahbenzer, in 1314. The mausoleum is located 23 km to the northern part of Agdam and is considered a notable monument of memorial architecture of medieval Azerbaijan. The mausoleum, as well as the Agdam district, where the mausoleum is located, was under the occupation of the unrecognized

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since the

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until 2020, when the district was returned to Azerbaijan per the

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Architecture

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” oblasts of the

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and

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. It has a dodecahedral body finished with a pyramidal marquee and stands on a not small three-laddered basement. The internal area of the mausoleum consists of a cross-shaped burial vault and an upper cell. Stalactitical branches of the cross adjoin a multitier stalactitical arch of the cell. A

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, which surrounds a chain of small, ornamented rosettes, is located in a shell-like multifoil conch in the southern end arch of the mausoleum. The strictness of the arch's interior is underlined by filigree ligature of the ornament of the biggest rosette located opposite the entry. An

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ligature on the aperture of the upper cell indicates a name of a buried man, construction date – the year 1314 – and a name of the architect – Shahbenzer. The mihrab and content of the ligature confirm that a “customer” was Muslim.

References

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