User:Abutalub/List of damaged Islamic and Azerbaijani sites during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

After Shusha was captured in 1992 during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, according to Armenian commander Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, the city was looted and burnt by Armenian citizens from nearby Stepanakert, who had endured months of bombing and shelling from Azerbaijani forces. He also noted it was part of a Karabakh Armenian superstition of burning houses to prevent the enemy from returning. As of 2002, ten years later after the city's capture by the Armenian forces, some 80% of the town was in ruins. Armenians also dismantled and sold off historic dark bronze busts of three Azerbaijani musicians and poets from Shusha.

OIC Resolution 10/11 stated the concern of the member states over "any looting and destruction of the archeological, cultural and religious monuments in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" (including Islamic monuments). The third part of OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Resolution 10/37 expressed concern over Armenian aggression on the Islamic heritage such as mosques, mausoleums, graves, archaeological excavations, museums, libraries, art exhibition halls, and government theatres and conservatories, recognized these acts as an attempt to totally annihilate Islamic heritage in the occupied Azerbaijani territories and asserted Azerbaijan's entitlement to "adequate compensation for the damages it has sustained" and affirmed the Republic of Armenia's responsibility to pay up full compensation for such damages.

OSCE fact-finding mission found the Fuzuli city in ruins in 2005. Agdam city was destroyed in and after Armenian attack. Armenians searched the ruins for anything useful even after destruction. After the end of 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, it has been found out that not only houses, but graveyards were destroyed by Armenian side. Pictures of a mosque in Alkhanli village that had been turned into a cowshed, caused outrage in Azerbaijani side. Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture also noted alterations to the Shahbulaq fortress in Aghdam.

In late 2020, both Armenia and Azerbaijan filed cases against each other related to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, Armenia v. Azerbaijan as well as Azerbaijan v. Armenia. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights is to consider both cases. In Azerbaijan v. Armenia case, Azerbaijani side claims that Azerbaijani sites including mosques, libraries, historical monuments were destroyed by Armenian side until 2020. It includes Shusha cemeteries and 65 mosques (or Islamic shrines) out of 67. Remaining two mosques were damaged.

Karabagh Armenians restored Shuhsa's two mosques. But it became another controversy because of the fact that they were presented as "Iranian" or "Persian" when in fact Turkic-speaking Shiite founders of these religious sites were related more to modern Azerbaijanis.