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Agdam Aghdam ( az, Ağdam) is a ghost town and the nominal capital of the Aghdam District of Azerbaijan. Founded in the 18th century, it was granted city status in 1828 and grew considerably during the Soviet Union, Soviet period. Aghdam lies from S ...

region of

. The mosque was built by order of

Panah Ali Khan Panah Ali Khan Javanshir (, ; 1693 – 1759 or 1763) was the founder and first ruler of the Karabakh Khanate under Persian suzerainty. Ancestry Panah Ali Khan was from the Sarijali branch of the clan of Javanshir, who with their associate clan o ...

in 1751–1752.

Structure

The Shahbulag Mosque is built entirely from local

, and consists of three arched balconies and a worship hall. The balconies are supported by a pair of stone columns. The ceiling is completed in the form of arcade. As the worship hall is square, the ceiling has the form of a dome from the interior, and on the outside the roof is made up of two slopes with the addition of new coating materials. This was created to make favorable conditions for the immediate flow of natural waters. The total wall thickness of the mosque reaches one meter. The plan dimensions of the mosque is 9,38x7,18 meters. As the mosque is built on the sloping ground, its distance from the rear to the roof is 4.37 meters and from the front facade to 5.40 meters. Despite the fact that the Shahbulag Mosque is architecturally simple, it is an example of architect

Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi ( az, Kərbəlayı Səfixan Sultanhüseyn oğlu Qarabaği) (c. 1817 - 1910) was an Azerbaijani architect and one of the representatives of Karabakh architecture schools. Buildings by Kerbalai Sefikhan Karabagi included ...

's creativity, seen in numerous mosques in

Karabakh Karabakh ( az, Qarabağ ; hy, Ղարաբաղ, Ġarabaġ ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura (Caspia ...

. The architectural idea of the Shahbulag mosque continues in the mosque in Papravənd village of Aghdam.

References

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Structure

See also

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