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Chin Mosque

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Chin Mosque

The Chin Mosque (Azerbaijani: Çin məscidi; Persian: مسجد جن; Arabic: مسجد تشين), also known as the Gazi Fezlullah bin Osman Mosque, is a historical former Iranian mosque, located on Kichik Gala street, near the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, in the Old City of Baku, in Azerbaijan. Completed in the 14th

century, the building is registered as a national architectural monument by the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated August 2, 2001, No. 132. No longer operating as a mosque, the building was repurposed in 2012 as a numismatic museum, part of the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan.

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