Albanian temple in the village of Qishlag

In the village of Qishlag in the Kavar district of the Goycha district

Kavar district – Kamo since 13.04.1959. The village of Qishlag was destroyed and liquidated between 1831 and 1873.

Architecture

The remains of the Albanian temple in the village of Qishlag, which was destroyed and turned into ruins in the mid-19th century, existed until the final deportation of Azerbaijanis in December 1988. Later, it was adopted by Armenians and presented as an "Armenian monument."

One of the Turkish toponyms that Armenians want to erase from history is Qishlag. In the southwest of Lake Goycha, in the delta of the Kavar River, in the village of Qishlag, a temple that Armenian scholars themselves declared to be an Albanian temple of the 9th century was located on a high ground. The temple was built using red tuff stone. Part of the temple, which also suffered from the attacks of 1831–1873, collapsed and was destroyed.
Qishlag village was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Goycha district, dating back thousands of years.
The remains of the Oghuz inscriptions are facts that confirm the 3000-year history of Qishlag and its connection with the Oghuz Turks, which is essential to put an end to all kinds of scientific disputes.
In the list compiled by I. Chopin, the name of the village of Qishlag is among the villages considered suitable for living at that time in the Goycha basin, which was given to the administration of the newly created Armenian province. The village existed until the middle of the 19th century. In official correspondence dating back to 1555, the village of Qishlag in Galaja is classified as one of the administrative units of the Chukhur-Saad beylerbey of the Safavid-Azerbaijani state. In 1723, five years after the Ottomans gained full control over the Lake Goycha basin, page 12 of the "Iravan Province Summary Book" recorded that the village of Qalajiq (Qishlag) was included in the administrative division of the Goycha district of the Iravan province and its annual tax was set at 3,920 agcha. Although documents from 1831 indicate that the village of Qishlag had a population of 583, the name of Qishlag is not found among the villages of Yeni Beyazid district in statistics from 1873 and official documents from subsequent periods. This means that the village of Qishlag was a victim of the 42-year Armenian atrocities that raged in Goycha between 1831 and 1873.

The remains of the Albanian temple in the abandoned village of Qishlag and the monuments belonging to the Oghuz Turks in the village cemetery, the fortress and the mosque-madrasah are material evidence confirming the at least 3,000-year history of the construction of the village of Qishlag by the Oghuz Turks.