Caravanserai in the village of Muganjiq

In the village of Muganchiq, in the present-day Uchkilsa district, in the Echmiadzin district of the Yerevan province

Uchkilsa (Vagharshapat) district was established on 09.09.1931. Since 12.03.1945, Echmiadzin

Architecture

Currently, the ceiling of the high entrance of the caravanserai is in a semi-destroyed state, the ceilings of the rooms have collapsed, and the side, back, and front walls and the wide arched wall consisting of two rows inside the caravanserai are partially intact, but the rear part has collapsed. Two arches and a part of the second-story building remain partially in a collapsed state. The caravanserai has been adopted by Armenians and is presented as an "Armenian monument."

The caravanserai is located on the roadside in the village of Muganchiq, 5 km from the district center. It was built in the oriental architectural style. White and gray river and rock stones were used in its construction. The edges of the doors, windows and arches were inlaid with marble. The caravanserai was two-story, the ground floor consisted of a 4-arched building. On the ground floor there were stables for horses, a shop, a dining room, a bathhouse, and on the upper floor there were rooms for customers. Its length was about 30–35, width 10, and height was about 7–8 meters.
The name of the village was later formalized as Mugan. In the "Detailed Notebook of the Iravan Province" compiled in 1590, in the sources of 1728 it is mentioned as Muganli, and in the 5-verst map of the Caucasus as Muganchiq.
The Muganchiq caravanserai, which represents the material and cultural heritage of Azerbaijan with its architecture, shows that the village and surrounding areas were the homeland of Azerbaijanis.

The toponym Muganli was formed on the basis of the Turkic ethnonym Muganchik. Muganchik consists of “Mugan” and the suffix “-chik” meaning diminutive. It means “Little Muganli”. Muganli is the common name of the Turkic-speaking Azerbaijani tribes who lived in the Mugan plain. Later, part of the Muganli became part of the Turkic tribe. It is an ethnotoponym. It is a structurally correct toponym.