Rajab Pasha Mosque

Rajab Pasha Mosque stood inside the Erivan Fortress in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Records date it to 1725, and it took its name from Rajab Pasha, the governor of Erivan at the time. Sources describe a regular rectangular plan with a spherical dome and geometric decoration in an eastern manner. It is described as the only Sunni mosque in Yerevan. The building no longer exists; the address in the record reflects the present-day urban location rather than a surviving structure.

The mosque is dated to 1725 and was associated with the governor Rajab Pasha, within the Erivan Fortress. One Russian-language source states that the building was originally a Greek Orthodox cathedral that was converted into a mosque in that year.

During the period of Iranian control, the Qajar governor largely neglected it and it was used as a storehouse. After the Russians took Yerevan, the crescent and star on the dome were removed and replaced with a cross and church bell, and the building became a Russian Orthodox church. Later, cylindrical columns in a Roman architectural manner were added and the roof was covered in the form of a Christian building.

In the 1930s, under the state atheism campaign in the Soviet Union, the structure, by then a church, was completely destroyed.