Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi (Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani language

Azerbaijani or Azeri or Torki is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran...

: Kərbəlayı Səfixan Sultanhüseyn oğlu Qarabaği) (c. 1817 - 1910) was the Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani people

The Azerbaijanis are a Turkic-speaking people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as in the neighbourhood states, Georgia, Russia and formerly Armenia. Commonly referred to as Azeris or Azerbaijani Turks , they also live in a wider area from the Caucasus to...

 architect and one of the representatives of Karabakh

Karabakh

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 architecture schools.

Works

A characteristic feature of creativity of Karabakhi was rational and skillful use of traditional local architecture. The socket of Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque

Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque

Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque is an Azerbaijani mosque located in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh. It is currently under the control of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since the capture of Shusha on May 8, 1992...

 built by him in 1883, states in Arabic

Arabic language

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: "Made by Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi. 1301."

Among the constructed projects by Karabakhi, includes a mosque in Barda

Barda, Azerbaijan

Barda is the capital city of the Barda Rayon in Azerbaijan, located south of Yevlax and on the left bank of the Terter river. Once an Armenian town, and later the capital of Caucasian Albania perhaps since the end of the fourth century, Barda became the chief city of the Islamic province of Arran,...

 (1868), the Agdam Mosque

Agdam Mosque

The Agdam Mosque is a large mosque in Agdam, Azerbaijan. It was partly destroyed by the Armed Forces of Armenia during Nagorno-Karabakh War.-Construction:The mosque was built by the architect Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi from 1868 to 1870...

, the Tatar Mosque in Odessa

Odessa

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, the Mosque Qarabaghlar in Ashgabat and other civic buildings in Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, lying between Lower Karabakh and Zangezur and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains...

 region.

He is also responsible for creating a single type of mosques with their unique organization of internal space - the division of stone

STONe

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columns on the two-story gallery and the use of domed ceilings in Nagorno-Karabakh region.