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At the time of the photofixation, the name of the Heavenly Mosque is also Goy Mosque of Haji-Huseyn Ali Khan. The picture was taken before the restoration of the building, which began in 1906. Blue, - for the color of ceramic tiles of the main dome, She received in the XX century. Cathedral Shiite mosque of Yerevan, built in 1766 by the local Persian Khan of the Erivan Khanate, Huseynali Khan Kajar in the quarter where the Muslim population of the city lived. In the mosque with the outbreak of World War II, in the fall of 1914, the military department arranged an arsenal. After the Second World War, the Museum of History and Nature of Yerevan was first built, showing archaeological, historical and cultural exhibits, a little later - a planetarium. And since 1995, with the help of Iran, which financed the restoration, the Heavenly - Blue Mosque became operational again. Today, the Blue Mosque is the cultural center of the Iranian community of Yerevan and Armenia.