Heydar Aliyev Foundation
In Azerbaijan, the mosque is usually referred to as a monument of Azerbaijani heritage of Yerevan. One government official called it "the largest religious center of Azerbaijanis living in Yerevan." A 2007 book titled "War against Azerbaijan: Targeting Cultural Heritage", published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan and the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, objected to the restoration of the mosque in the 1990s and to its "presentation as a Persian mosque." Armenian scholar Rouben Galichian argues in his 2009 book "Invention of History":