Khoja Marjanli Mosque
Location: Shusha city, Shusha
Condition Assessment
Status: Major damage
Located in the city of Shusha, the Khoja Marjanli Mosque appears on the list of heritage sites of the Republic of Azerbaijan (inventory No. 5137) as an architectural monument dating to the 18 th century. 1
CHW compared Hexagon satellite imagery dated July 1980 2 with satellite imagery captured in September 2002 3 to determine that the roof had been removed during this period.
The mosque remained in this condition until the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War. An image post-dating the 2020 war (Supplementary Images) confirms that the upper courses of the mosque's masonry walls were also destroyed.
Geolocation
CHW geolocated the mosque based on locational information provided in an academic publication on the architecture of Shusha. 5
Supplementary Images
The remnants of the mosque building as of October 2022.
References
2 KH-9 Hexagon, D3C1216-100138A003, July 3, 1980.
3 Google Earth/Maxar Technologies, September 27, 2002.
4 Google Earth/Maxar Technologies, February 14, 2021.
5 Авалов Э. В., Архитектура города Шуши и проблемы сохранения его исторического облика. [Ред. А. В. Саламзаде]. АН АзССР, Ин-т архитектуры и искусства. Баку: Элм, 1977, p. 71.
