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Description
Property Name: Vatan Memorial Complex
Inventory No: 7-7872-1
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2009-08-04
Country (State party): Russia
Province: Dagestan
Town: Sogratl’
Geographic coordinates: 42° 16′ 32.95″ N
47° 0′ 24.56″ E
Historic Period: Contemporary (21st century)
Year of Construction: 2004
Style: Contemporary
Original Use: Mosque, Public
Current Use: Mosque, Public
Architect: Kurbanmagomed Kerimov
Significance
The monument commemorates the battle in 1741, built at the same location. It is an architectural-landscape composition built of natural stone. The monument is composed of two sections, the mosque and the medival-style battlement formed of two intersecting towers. The second part serves as a museum and the structures are connected through terraces.
Selection Criteria
iii. to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
Terraces has seen some restorations.
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