Pir-Hussein Mausoleum

This mausoleum of Turkmen emirs was built in 1413 during the rule of Pir-Hussein, son of Emir Saad of the Kara Koyunlu dynasty, in the Chukhur-Saad province of Eastern Armenia. It stands in the village of Argavand, eight kilometres west of Yerevan on the road to Etchmiadzin.

During the Soviet period, the mausoleum was recognised as an architectural monument and entered in the register of the Armenian SSR’s State Committee for Construction and Architecture. Even so, it received little archaeological attention, and its Arabic inscription remained unread and unpublished for many years.