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Kars Cathedral
Cathedral of Kars, in 2014
Religion
Affiliation	Armenian Apostolic Church
Rite	Armenian Apostolic cathedral (until 1065) Mosque (1579–1877) Russian Orthodox cathedral (1877–1918) Mosque (1918–19) Armenian Apostolic church (1919–20) Kars Museum (1964–78)^[1] Mosque (1993–present)^[1]^[2]
Location
Location	Kars, Turkey
Shown within Turkey
Geographic coordinates	40°36′40.7″N 43°05′29.2″E / 40.611306°N 43.091444°E / 40.611306; 43.091444
Architecture
Type	Cathedral
Style	Armenian
Founder	Abas I of Armenia
Groundbreaking	930^[5] or 931–2^[8]
Completed	937,^[10] 943,^[12] or 967^[7]

The Cathedral of Kars, also known as the Holy Apostles Church (Armenian: Կարսի Սուրբ Առաքելոց եկեղեցի, Karsi Surb Arakelots' yekeghets'i; Turkish: Aziz Havariler Kilisesi^[11] or "Church of the Twelve Apostles" 12 Havariler Kilisesi)^[1]^[9]^[13] is a former Armenian Apostolic church in Kars, eastern Turkey. Built in the mid-10th century by the Armenian Bagratid King Abas I (r. 928–953), it was converted into a mosque in 1579. In the 19th and early 20th century it was converted into a Russian Orthodox and later Armenian cathedral. In 1993 it was again converted into a mosque and is called Kümbet Mosque^[3] (Turkish: Kümbet Camii, literally "domed mosque").^[14] It currently comprises part of a larger Islamic complex that includes the Evliya Mosque, the biggest mosque in Kars.^[15]

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^ Demirci, Mehmet; Kurt, Süleyman; Öylek, Yahya; Kaban, Murat (29 March 2007). "Ermeni açılımlarına Akdamar da ekleniyor". Zaman (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 8 December 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2014. Ermenistan resmi heyeti, Van'dan önce geldikleri Kars'ta eski ismi "12 Havariler Kilisesi" olan Kümbet Camii...
^ "Կարսի Առաքելոց եկեղեցին պատմության ընթացքում չորս անգամ վերածվել է մզկիթի. թուրք պաշտոնյա" (in Armenian). Armenpress. 19 January 2013. Archived from the original on 10 December 2020. Թուրքերն այժմ այն կոչում են «Գմբեթավոր մզկիթ»:
^ Sarıaslan, Kübra Zeynep (September 2010). "Pamuk's Kars and Its Others: An Ethnography on Identifications and Boundaries of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Secularism" (PDF). Middle East Technical University. p. 53. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 4, 2014. Evliya Mosque is the biggest mosque in Kars, with the largest community. The mosque was newly constructed and it is located at the center of a huge religious complex that includes the Armenian Church, which was converted to a mosque in 2007.