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There are 403 historical and religious monuments in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, including 67 mosques, 144 churches, and 192 sanctuaries.
63 out of the 67 mosques officially operating in Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas were destroyed by Armenia.
63 out of the 67 mosques officially operating in Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas were destroyed by Armenia.
List of mosques destroyed by Armenia:
* 16 in Fizuli,
* 13 in Shusha
* 12 in Zangilan
* 8 in Gubadli
* 8 in Lachin
* 5 in Agdam
* 5 in Jabrayil
* 16 in Fizuli,
* 13 in Shusha
* 12 in Zangilan
* 8 in Gubadli
* 8 in Lachin
* 5 in Agdam
* 5 in Jabrayil
Today, what remains of Shusha’s Azerbaijani heritage has been mainly erased by Armenia, as well, aside from a few monuments, most of them in poor repair. And those tend to be portrayed as peripheral to the city’s true nature.
Even the Armenian human rights activist Vahan Martirosyan spoke about destruction of Azerbaijani mosques:
"Armenian media will not write the truth about what we are talking and discussing about, or they will distort in favor of the Armenian authorities." https://report.az/en/nagorno-karabakh-conflict/vahan-martirosyan-mosques-destroyed-in-armenia-they-rewrite-the-history-concerning-azerbaijan/
"Armenian media will not write the truth about what we are talking and discussing about, or they will distort in favor of the Armenian authorities." https://report.az/en/nagorno-karabakh-conflict/vahan-martirosyan-mosques-destroyed-in-armenia-they-rewrite-the-history-concerning-azerbaijan/
It's my duty to report that Armenia used Aghdam's Juma mosque was turned into a cattle pen.
Here's a photo taken by Russian photojournalist.
And now are they going to teach about "tolerance"
Here's a photo taken by Russian photojournalist.
And now are they going to teach about "tolerance"
Armenians decimated Azerbaijani city of Shusha and its famed Mamayi Mosque, which was transformed into an Armenian church, its commemorative Islamic plaque erased and replaced with an Armenian cross.
Source for non-beleivers: https://www.flickr.com/photos/146609189@N06/49195865528/in/dateposted-public/
Source for non-beleivers: https://www.flickr.com/photos/146609189@N06/49195865528/in/dateposted-public/
The plundering, desecration and destruction of Azerbaijani cultural heritage in Armenia and the occupied Karabakh region includes 4,500 historical, religious and cultural monuments.
In Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, there were once more than 60 Azerbaijani mosques, yet today only one remains, the Blue Mosque, which the Armenian government renamed the Persian Mosque and loaned to the Iranian Embassy. https://www.azernews.az/aggression/126245.html
During the 1990 pogroms against Azerbaijani residents of Yerevan, an Azerbaijani mosque known as ‘Demirbulag’ was bulldozed by Armenian government.
The destruction was attested by The New Yorker reporter Robert Cullen. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/04/15/roots-2
The destruction was attested by The New Yorker reporter Robert Cullen. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/04/15/roots-2
Azerbaijani graveyards have been mostly destroyed and desecrated, as described in this video of an Armenian reporter on a destroyed Azerbaijani graveyard in Armenia’s Vayots Dzor region.
Here's the video: https://vimeo.com/42083288
Here's the video: https://vimeo.com/42083288
Destroyed Azerbaijani graveyard in Armenia’s Vayots Dzor region
The scope of this barbaric destruction could make even Daesh jealous.
The scope of this barbaric destruction could make even Daesh jealous.
Items of Azerbaijani cultural heritage, plundered by Armenian soldiers from museums in Karabakh, frequently end up at auctions such as Sotheby’s.
http://www.today.az/print/news/politics/173565.html
Is this the cultural genocide Armenians are claiming?
http://www.today.az/print/news/politics/173565.html
Is this the cultural genocide Armenians are claiming?
Nearly every Azerbaijani-populated towns, villages, and even streets, have been renamed after the occupation, and Armenianized, in a brutal attempt to erase any traces of Azerbaijanis’ age-old presence in Karabakh.
Occupied houses of Azerbaijani refugees were offered as vacation rentals on Airbnb by Armenian government.
Is this the justice Armenian government seeking?
Is this the justice Armenian government seeking?
Azerbaijani Abbas Mirza Mosque (built in 1810) in Yerevan, Armenia. Totally destroyed and replaced with a high-rise.
Pass it on to Armenian government's propagandists and crooks.
Pass it on to Armenian government's propagandists and crooks.
Ashaghi Govhar Agha Mosque in the Armenian-occupied city of Shusha. Destroyed and desecrated after the occupation of this Azerbaijani city by Armenia in 1992.
Desecrated Azerbaijani cemetery in the Urud village, Syunik province, Armenia
Even the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) confirmed the Armenian destruction of Azerbaijani cultural heritage in the region.
http://www.unesco.az/files/image/files/Destruction_of_Azerbaijani_cultural_heritage.pdf
http://www.unesco.az/files/image/files/Destruction_of_Azerbaijani_cultural_heritage.pdf
The irony is at the height of the 1992-1994 war in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenians even destroyed their own monument, in an effort to erase this history. https://www.flickr.com/photos/146609189@N06/47692216042/in/dateposted-public/
