Abbas Mirza Mosque was a nineteenth-century Shia mosque in Yerevan

Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...

, Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

. This mosque was built at the beginning of the nineteenth century, during the reign of the last khan of Erivan Khanate

Erivan Khanate

The Khanate of Erivan , was an administrative territory that was established Safavid Persia in the early 17th century. It covered an area of roughly 7,500 square miles, and corresponded to most of present-day central Armenia, most of the Iğdır Province of present-day Turkey, and the Sharur and...

 Huseyn Khan. It was named Abbas Mirza Jami after the Persian crown prince Abbas Mirza

Abbas Mirza

Prince, Field-Marshal Abbas Mirza born Amol city , was a Qajar crown prince of Persia. He developed a reputation as a military commander during wars with Russia and the Ottoman Empire, as an early modernizer of Persia's armed forces and institutions, and for his death before his father, Fath Ali...

, the son of Fat′h-Ali Shah. The façade of mosque was covered in green and blue glass, which reflecting Persian and Arab architectural styles. After the capture of Yerevan by the Russians, the mosque was used as an arsenal.
The mosque was turned into barracks after it was conquered by Russian troops.

During the Soviet era the mosque, along with other religious structures - Armenian churches, temples and monasteries was derelict and currently only the frame of the mosque has been preserved..