Manouchehr Mosque,
It’s one of the historical mosques in Kars Governorate,Northern Kurdistan 1072 AD - 1118 AD. The ruins of the historic Manouchehr mosque are located on the western bank of the Akhorian river in the deserted village of Ani, in the Kars Governorate, North Kurdistan. The village is 44 km east of the city of Kars. The Manouchehr mosque was named after the Kurdish prince Al-Shadadi Manouchehr bin Shafur 1072 AD - 1118 AD,one of the princes of the Kurdish Shahdadi dynasty, who ruled the city of Ani after the year 1072 AD. The oldest sections of the historical Manouchehr mosque, which is the minaret, are still preserving their condition, The mosque is a rectangular structure, 18.5 metres by 15.7 metres. The entrance was at the northern end of the west facade. The interior comprised a rectangular prayer-hall whose roof was supported by six freestanding columns that divided the interior space into eleven compartments - only six compartments now survive intact. The designs of the ceilings over these compartments are different from each other, and are richly decorated with polychrome stone inlays. The columns are short and fat, with capitals bearing muqarnas ornamentation. Similar columns can be found inside the hall at the monastery of Horomos, and the basmala in Kufic script is located on the northern side of the minaret. While the prayer hall built in the twelfth or thirteenth century is half demolished,The historic Manouchehr mosque was partially reconstructed in the year 1906 AD, to convert it into a museum to display the archaeological discoveries of Nicholas Marr, According to some sources, Ani was an abandoned medieval medieval city. Today, it is one of the archaeological sites within the Kars governorate in northern Kurdistan, and it is located near the border with Armenia. And the Restoration of the mosque started in june 2020. [1] [2]