Seldagilan village mosque

In the village of Seldagilan in the Ağbaba district of the Şoreyel district, then in the Amasya (Hamasa) district

Amasya – was founded on 09.09.1930.

Architecture

The remains of the mosque, destroyed by the Armenians, existed until the deportation of the Azerbaijanis.

The village of Seldağılan is located 15 km northwest of the center of the Amasya region, at the foot of Mount Aghbaba. The inhabitants of the village were Azerbaijanis. The village mosque was built in the 19th century by financially capable benefactors and villagers. The width of the mosque was 14, the length was 18, and the height was about 5 meters. People from surrounding villages would also come to the village mosque for pilgrimage and worship. The mosque was burned down by Armenians in 1916 and 1918.
The toponym is formed from the combination of the word "sel", which means "flood", and the verb "dağılan". The strong flood waters flowing from the Big and Small Agbaba mountains near the village were scattered in different directions and flowed in torrents, so they called it a flood. Another name for the village was Seyidoghlan. It is a hydrotoponym. It is a structurally complex toponym.
In Armenian sources, the Karapapags are shown as the inhabitants of the village and they are presented as a people. The Karapapags living here are not a separate people, but one of the ethnographic groups of Azerbaijanis. In 1886, 231 Azerbaijanis lived in the village, in 1887 360, in 1908 359, in 1914 414.
The population of the village of Seldagilan was subjected to genocide by the Armenians in 1916. The remaining part of the village's population, unable to withstand the Armenian attacks, moved to Turkish territory in 1920.

Mosques were not built only for worship and religious ceremonies. Mosques were considered multifunctional buildings, and the events held there also strengthened communication and unity among Muslims. The flooded village mosque was one of these mosques.