Geysariyye Monument

Situated at market square, the city center of Ordubad, it is one of the Turco-Islamic monuments of Nakhchivan.

Such buildings can be found in three parts of the world - Samarkand, Lar, Tabriz, Ordubad, etc..[2] Mainly gold jewelry was sold here.

[4] During the period of activity as zurkhaneh, the wrestlers from Iran (Specially Hamadan), Turkey and other places tried their strength here.

In the twentieth century, the monument operated as a silk-wing workshop, and was restored in 1978 by architect Zakir Babayev.

[2] In accordance to the order of the Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, restoration works were conducted in Geysariyye in 2010.

According to the elderly residents of the district, two different iron tools were hanged on the doors of the houses in Ordubad in the XVII century.

[3] Gamigaya granite stones belonging to II-I millennium BC are the oldest exhibits in the museum.