Mosque in Madina village

In Madina village, located in Garanlig District, Yeni Beyazid uezd, Iravan Governorate.

Garanlig district Martuni, Madina village exist in the current period. It is written as Madina in documents by Armenians.

Architecture

 In 1918, the corpses of the villagers massacred by the Armenians were stuffed into the mosque-madrasa and burned.

It is located 10 km southeast of the district center, near Ayrichay. It is marked on the 5 verst map of the Caucasus. The village of Madina was one of the large villages of Goycha that witnessed many periods of its history. The mosque, located in the center of the village, was a place for worship, as well as teaching religious and secular sciences for people from the village and the surrounding area. A section of the mosque was used as a madrasah. The people of Madina village attached special importance to religious values. The village has produced many teachers, scientists and religious figures who studied in Iran, Turkey and Iraq. According to Goyche's memory, the Armenians did not even leave the corpses of the Madinans they killed in 1918 alone, but gathered them in the mosque-madrasa and burned them. The Armenians of the village of Ashaghi Getashen, who occupied this place in 1918, refused to live in this village after a short time purely because of religious fear, and after the original owners of Madina were forcibly relocated in 1948, no one set foot here for a while, and although the village remained neglected, they did not risk destroying it. In 1914, the population of the village reached 1023 people. In November 1918, the sharpest clash between Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Goycha took place in this village. The Dashnak army of the so-called "Republic of Ararat", which was established in the lands inhabited by Azerbaijanis, looted the village completely, did not spare any part of the population and carried out a great genocide. To imagine the full extent of the Madina tragedy it is enough to pay attention to the official statistics: in 1922, the number of Turks who returned to Madina after the Soviet government's guarantee of safety was only 94 people, that is, 9 percent of the population in 1914.

The toponym is derived from the word Madina, which means "city" in Arabic. It is a simple toponym in structure. The mosque-madrasa shows that the village is a place of residence that keeps the Islamic religious traditions alive. Until the village was abolished, only Azerbaijanis lived there.