Shirvanli mosque

Near Amasiya village, the center of Aghbaba district of Shorayel mahal, later Amasiya district

Amasiya district, Amasiya village

Architecture

Shirvanli mosque was burned by Armenians after the deportation of Azerbaijanis in 1987-1991. It was left in ruins during this period.

Ismayil Shirvani's caliph, who attracted attention with his literary Sufi personality and activities in the Karabakh region, is Mir Hamza Nigari. He was born in 1805 in Jijimli village of Karabakh Khanate. In his youth, he moved from here to Sivas to Ismayil Afandi to study science. After completing his scientific and Sufi education, Gara returned to the garden. When he was preparing for a rebellion against the Russians, who had begun to invade Azerbaijan, his plans were uncovered, so he fled through Iran to Arzurum. After Sheikh Ismayil Shirvani, he continued his duty of inviting the residents of Amasiya and surrounding settlements to guidance, and after his death, he was buried in Amasiya. One of Mir Hamza Nigari's disciples, Sheikh Haji Mahmud from Gaza, built a tomb and a mosque on the grave of the sheikh with donations collected from Azerbaijan. The foundation of Shirvanli Mosque, which was laid in 1876 and completed in 1895, is of particular importance in the sense that it is the only mosque in Amasiya built in the Baroque style in the XIX century. The tomb of Mir Hamza Efendi is adjacent to the mosque.

The Shirvanli mosque shows that Amasia has been the motherland of the Turkic Oghuz tribes since ancient times and that the Islamic religion is widely spread