Juma, a mosque in old Tbilisi, is the city's only Muslim shrine.
On a steep rocky slope in old Tbilisi stands the Juma Mosque, one of Georgia's main attractions.
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The Tbilisi Mosque (Juma Mosque) is located in old Tbilisi, Abanotubani, at the foot of the Narikala Citadel. Therefore, you do not have to look for it for a long time.
The peculiarity is that at present Juma is the only Muslim shrine in the capital.
The first Sunni mosque appeared in this place in 1723-1735 and was built by the Ottomans. But after a couple of decades, approximately in the 1740s, the city was attacked by the Persians, after which the mosque was left only ruins.
In the period from 1846 to 1851, the building was rebuilt practically from scratch by architect Giovanni Scudieri. The changes did not end there, and by the end of the 19th century, in 1895, the Azerbaijani billionaire from Baku G. Tagiyev paid for the complete renovation of the mosque, but at the same time he significantly changed the part that faces east.
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It is striking that such a powerful brick structure stands on a steep cliff slope. But tourists are usually attracted by the arched windows, and so unusual for a mosque architecture. Just here in some amazing way managed to mix neo-Gothic and Islamic elements. Also attracts attention octagonal rather than round minaret.
The beautiful mosaics on the facade of the mosque are not to be missed either. Many people who do not know that there is a mosque here, notice the Juma only because of these mosaic patterns.
Originally the Tbilisi mosque belonged to the Sunnis, so until 1951 Shiites could only come to the blue mosque, and Sunnis to the Juma mosque.
But as it turned out, the blue mosque was destroyed during the construction of the Metekhi bridge. After that there was no sacred place for Shiites to pray and the Tbilisi mosque accepted them. At first the prayer hall was divided by a black curtain into two parts for different branches of Islam.
Now the room is no longer divided in any way, and everyone can pray here.
So it turns out that as time goes by, the boundaries disappear and everything changes. Only the beauty of the architecture remains the same.
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