Blue Mosque
Armenian and some Western sources refer to the mosque as Iranian/Persian. In fact, it is often referred to locally as simply the "Persian mosque". Tsypylma Darieva notes that "in local media and in official discourses, the Blue Mosque has been strongly associated with the new expatriate political body symbolizing the recent Armenian–Iranian friendship. This dominant reading of the place defines the Blue Mosque exclusively as the ‘Persian Mosque’."