Qishlag village mosque

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

Kavar district – from 13.04.1959, the village of Kamo, Qishlag was destroyed and abolished between 1831 and 1873.

Architecture

In the village of Qishlag, which was destroyed and abandoned in the mid-19th century, the remains of a mosque existed until the deportation of 1988. The Armenians destroyed many of the material and cultural monuments belonging to Azerbaijanis. The village mosque also suffered from this vandalism.

The mosque, an Islamic religious monument, is located in the village of Qishlag in the Kavar region. The mosque was built in the 15th-16th centuries with the financial assistance of wealthy philanthropists from the village. In the southwest of Lake Goycha, in the delta of the Kavar River, near the coast, the ruins of the village and the mosque, which were destroyed and abandoned in the mid-19th century, remained untouched until the deportation of 1988.
The mosque was a place of worship for the villagers. At the same time, the villagers gathered in the mosque on religious holidays and special days. The existence of inscriptions in the ruins of the village and in the territory of the temple, which Armenian scholars themselves attribute to the 9th century, a mosque-madrasah dating back to the 15th-16th centuries, and an ancient cemetery, gives reason to say that the village of Qishlag was one of the oldest settlements in the Goycha region, dating back thousands of years.
Based on the remains of the Oghuz inscriptions, these two facts are facts that put an end to all kinds of scientific disputes and confirm the 3000-year history of Qishlag and its connection with the Oghuz Turks.
In the list compiled by I. Chopin, the name of the village of Qishlag is also 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 Qalajiq Qishlag is classified as one of the administrative units of the Chukhur-Saad Beylerbeyli of the Safavid-Azerbaijani state. On page 12 of the "Comprehensive Register of the Iravan Province", approved 5 years after the Ottomans gained full control over the Goycha Lake basin in 1723, notes were made about the inclusion of the village of Qalajiq (Qishlag) in the administrative division of the Goycha district of the Iravan province and the determination of its annual tax in the amount of 3920 agcha. Although documents from 1831 indicate that the village of Qishlag had a population of 583 people, the name of Qishlag is not found among the villages of the Yeni Beyazid district in the statistics for 1873 and in 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 mosque, a model of Azerbaijani culture, proves that Azerbaijanis in the village have gone through a deep socio-economic and historical development.