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Blue Mosque is the only Muslim prayer house in Yerevan. The establishment was built in 1766 with the initiative of Khan Hussein. The mosque is called “blue” because of the blue decorations of the dome.  One of the largest mosques in the territory of Caucasus has 200-year-old history. During Soviet times, as all the other spiritual establishments, this one was also abandoned. In 1995 the governments of Armenia and Iran signed an agreement on reconst...

Yerevanians love boasting about their city being the elder brother of ”eternal Rome”. You may probably think it’s merely out of endless love toward their home town. But the reason is not only subjective. Yerevan is in fact one of the oldest surviving capitals of the world. It’s history dates back to 782 BC, when King Argishti of Urartu founded Erebuni fortress which later grew into a town. Unfortunately, ancient and medieval buildings hardly survived to date because of...