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Molla Geyib pir

Monument date
XVII-XVIII c
Placement
Previous toponym

It is located in the village of Sofulu on the left bank of the Ayri river, bet­ween the villa­ge of Dastagird and the village of Murkhuz, in the Garakilsa district of Zan­ga­zur mahal, 18 km south­west of the cen­ter.

Placement
Current toponym

The name of So­fulu village was changed to Sisyan on 09.04.1991 

Classification

Archi­tecture

Current situation

During the So­viet period, Ar­me­nians carried the ancient sto­nes to the dist­rict center by truck. After the deportation in 1988, Molla Ge­­yib Pir was destroyed

Information

The grave and tomb of Molla Geyib, one of the famous religious figures of the village, is located in the Sofulu village cemetery. Molla Geyib was a friend of Sheikh Efendi (Nigari). There was a mosque with a very ancient history in the village. There is a mollakhana near the mosque. The last mollakhana’s teacher was Haji Ismayil. This mosque was destroyed in the 30s of Soviet rule. In many places around the village, there were ram-imaged stones with inscrip­tions on them.