[4] The mosque was repaired by the Ottomans after the village was burned by the Safavid Tahmasp I in 1548/49.

[4] The repairs are commemorated by an Ottoman inscription in the mosque written in Persian with the date of 1550.

Located in the mosque's graveyard is a ruined tomb believed to be of the Akkoyunlu ruler Kutlu Bey (d.

Sünür (derived from the Greek "Sinora", border) has the remains of the ruins of the tower where Mithridates halted on his retreat from Armenia.

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