Friday Prayers Held in Azerbaijan’s Shusha Again
The Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque in the recently liberated city hosted the prayers yesterday.
Shusha is a part of the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan that was under Armenian control for two decades but was recently liberated.
It was the first Friday prayers in the city in 28 years.
Shusha is a major cultural and historical place and also has strategic importance for its geographic position.
Leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Russia signed a statement on ending the war in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh earlier this week.
Azerbaijan and Armenia had been fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh since September.
Karabakh is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but it is held by ethnic Armenian separatists backed by Armenia since 1992, when they broke from Azerbaijan in a war that killed some 30,000 people.
