Blue Mosque in Yerevan, was built in 1766 on the orders of the Turkish khan khanate Erivan Huseynali Khan Qajar.

Erivan khanate was founded in 1604 and was part of Persia. The capital was the city of Erivan (now - Yerevan), which was inhabited mainly by Turks. City many times passed from hand to hand from the Ottoman Turks to the Persians, and then - to the Russian. After the Russian army stormed the city in 1827, Yerevan became part of the Russian Empire.

In Soviet times, the Blue Mosque was closed in 1931 it opened a museum of the history and nature of Yerevan, later the museum was transformed into a planetarium. According to urban legend, during the war the mosque was saved by the fact that it was organized by the ammunition depot, which, of course, the military kept as the apple of an eye.

The mosque was restored in 1996 with funds donated by the Iranian government. Currently, it is an active mosque - the spiritual and religious center of Iran's Armenian community.

Ciel famous mosque attached faience and majolica, which lined the walls and dome. Once the Blue Mosque decorated with four tall minarets, whose steeples ascended into the sky for 25 meters. Now there was only one. Its height is 24 meters.

Now the complex includes a prayer hall of the mosque, madrasah, library and 28 pavilions. Behind the walls there is a cozy patio, keeps cool on hot summer days. This patio spread their branches of an old mulberry tree.