Fizuli province
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GHARGHABAZAR
The village of Gharghabazar, which has preserved its significance since the antiquity, is situated on the main road, 6.5 km south of the town of Fizuli. This settlement obtained even more importance in the second half of the XVII cent, during the last period of the Persian rule, when a Persian mosque (1682) and caravan-saray (1684) were built by Armenian masons. Visiting the village in the sixties S. Barkhudarian observed: "The external walls of the whole caravansaray are built of coarse stone, while the inner guest rooms and especially the hall are faced by processed stone. The hall arches are built in the form of a horseshoe. The entire building is constructed in the best traditions of Armenian architecture. A scratched inscription made by unskilled hand on the pillar of the central arch of the hall tells:
"I, JLIVARD, CAME. YEAR 1681,.."
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