It is built to honor Molla Panah Vagif, a poet, diplomat and vizier (the foreign minister of the Karabakh Khanate.)

[1] The mausoleum was built by sculptor A. Mustafayev based on the design by a member of the National Academy of Sciences Abdul Vakhab Salamzade and well-known architect E.I.

Azerbaijani state media has claimed that the mausoleum has been vandalized by Armenian forces following the capture of Shusha in 1992.

[3] The state of the mausoleum steadily deteriorated during the Armenian control over the town from 1992 to 2020.

[5] On 29 August 2021, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, inaugurated the restored mausoleum.