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Mosque "Juma" in Salyan
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    Tabriz Khalilbayli, Salyan, AZ5200
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Juma mosque of Salyan city – is in the centre of Salyan city. The words “1865. The master Karbalayi Ali Akbar has built the mosque in the name of Haji Mehdi’s son Aga Huseyn” have been written on an iron board on the wall on the left side of the main entrance door.
The walls of this mosque have been covered with stone flags. The backyard area is 21x20 metres, the inside area is 21x12 metres. Though this mosque had 18 domes once, only 15 domes have remained currently. As local people say, those 3 domes were destroyed in 1930th year. The domes of the mosque stand on 10 stone columns. And the columns have been made of flagstones.
2 stone inscriptions have been ebgraved on the sides of the entrance door, as well as one more stone inscription has been engraved inside from the entrance door. The inside walls of the mosque have been built of red brick. Though the Juma mosque of Salyan has been kept as it was, its minaret which was built once has been destroyed. And the height of the current minaret is 8 metres. Its pulpit is wooden and five-stepped. Inscriptions have been engraved on the edges of its alter in the Arabic language. The master of the Juma mosque of Salyan Karbalayi Ali Akbar has built mosques in India, as well as in Ardabil. He is Arabic by origin.

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