page_title: Blue Mosque, Yerevan
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Blue Mosque, Yerevan / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Yerevan's Blue mosque by Panos Terlemezian
context_page_description: The Blue Mosque is an 18th-century Shia mosque in Yerevan, Armenia. It was commissioned by Huseyn Ali Khan, the khan of Erivan. It is one of the oldest extant structures in central Yerevan and the most significant structure from the city's Iranian period. It was the largest of the eight mosques of Yerevan in the 19th century and is today the only active mosque in Armenia.
  The mosque was secularized in the 1920s and housed the History Museum of Yerevan for more than five decades. Following Armenia's independence, the mosque was renovated with the support from the Iranian government and again started operating as a mosque, serving the Iranians residing in Yerevan.
caption: The Blue Mosque by Panos Terlemezian, 1917
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