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The complex is interesting as a monument of Persian architecture in Yerevan, a type of cult building. 1687

Located in the southern part of Kond Hill, in a densely built-up residential area at the beginning of Rustaveli Street. The mosque was built by Haji Novruz Alibek in 1687, during the Persian rule. The complex is represented in the 1906-1911 master plan of Yerevan, compiled by architect Boris Mehrabyan.
During the Soviet years, several families settled in the territory of the mosque, whose numerous reconstructions and changes disrupted the original appearance and volumetric structure of the mosque. Today it is still inhabited.
The Kond Mosque is a complex of buildings extending in a north-south direction around a rectangular, wide inner courtyard, dominated by the mosque building with a dome. The structures are located along the perimeter of the courtyard according to their specific functional purpose. On the eastern and western sides are almost identical, three cells each, measuring 4.3 x 3.4 m. The northern and southern structures were of a cultic nature, with the difference that the first was intended for prayers in winter, and the second for summer. The cultic structure consists of three interconnected buildings (of which the dominant one is the middle one, the dome-bearing one), as well as vaulted halls attached to the first one from the east and west. The mosque has two entrances on both sides of the southern cultic volume group: from the east and west. Moreover, in both cases there are intermediate passageways between the first opening and the exit to the courtyard. The eastern and western residential buildings consist of six identical structures. The building material is baked brick. The domes are decorated with black, gray and yellow tiles. The southern dome and the adjacent quarters are destroyed. The walls have cracks.