Religious school in Agbulag village

In the village of Agbulag, Chambarek district, Goycha district

Chambarek district was renamed Krasnoselsk on December 31, 1937, and the village of Agbulag was renamed Agberk on April 19, 1991.

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The activity of the religious school teaching Islam was stopped after the establishment of the Soviet government.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before the establishment of Soviet power, a religious school called "mollakhana" operated in the village of Agbulag in the Chambarak district. The religious school taught the Arabic alphabet, Islam, and the Holy Quran. Classes at the school were taught by Mashadi Molla Ali and Mashadi Molla Hasan. One of the benefactors of the village had established his house for the religious school.
In the "Comprehensive Register of the Yerevan Province" (1728), it is recorded as the village of Agbulag in the Darachichek district, and it is indicated that the state received 3 thousand aqchas of income per year from the timar in the name of a person named Abdurrahman in the village.
In the records of I. Shope (1832), it was recorded as the village of Agbulag in the Goycha district of the Iravan province, and it was indicated that 136 (79 men, 57 women) Azerbaijanis lived in 26 households in the village.
In the “Comprehensive Diary of the Iravan province” (1728), it was recorded as the village of Agbulag in the Derechichek district, and it was indicated that the state received 3 thousand agchas of income per year from the timar in the name of a person named Abdurrahman in the village.
Statistical data from 1873 indicate that 422 (234 men, 188 women) Azerbaijanis lived in 51 households in the village listed as Agbulag village in the Goycha Lake basin district of Yeni Bayazid district of Yerevan province, and that the village was located on the shores of Goycha Lake, at the cape of Adatepe.
In 1886, 575 (318 men, 257 women) Azerbaijanis lived in 83 households in the village listed as Agbulag village in the Mazra district of Yeni Bayazid district of Yerevan province.
Finally, in 1908, the number of Azerbaijanis in the village reached 940, in 1914 - 982, and in 1919 - 1329.
In 1919, Armenian bandits attacked and drove the population out of the village with bloody massacres. In 1919-1920, our compatriots were expelled from the village and found refuge in various regions of Azerbaijan. Only after the establishment of Soviet power in the region did the displaced population return and, having rebuilt the village, settle in their native land.
In 1922, 1053 Azerbaijanis lived in the village, in 1926 - 1113, in 1931 - 1392, in 1970 - 1542, in 1979 - 1450. In 1985, the village population was 1500, and the number of schoolchildren was 330.
According to calculations, in 1988, 345 Azerbaijani families left the village of Agbulag.
During the Soviet period, the village of Shorsa, located 4 kilometers from the village, was included in the Agbulag Soviet.
On November 24, 1988, the village was subjected to more intensive attacks by Armenian bandits. On the snowy and frosty night of November 28, between 1 and 3 am, the villagers were forced to leave their homeland under a hail of bullets.

The teaching of the Arabic alphabet, Islam and its holy book, the Holy Quran, was important for people's acquisition of religious knowledge and enrichment of their spiritual world. It is possible that the name of the village consists of the words "agh" and "bulaq" meaning "drinkable water" and "sweet water" (B. Budagov, G. Geybullayev). Many toponyms with the same name - village, spring and mountain names - have been recorded in the regions of Chambarek, Agin, Surmeli, Shorayel, Ka-ver, Kirkhbulaq, Abaran, Vedibasar of the Iravan region.