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The Muhammad Mosque or Siniggala Mosque [a] is a former mosque, located in the Old City of Baku, Azerbaijan. The mosque was built in the 11th century. The mosque was built in the 11th century. It is the first building in Azerbaijan, which is related to Islam and dated for its architectural ligature.
Mosques in Baku Name Year completedd Image Notes Jinn Mosque: 14th century: Takyeh (Old City, Baku) 13th century: Molla Ahmad Mosque: 1300: Haci Bani Mosque: 16th century: Chin Mosque: 1375: Gileyli Mosque: 1309: Khidir Mosque: 1301: Sayyid Yahya Murtuza Mosque: 17th century: Sheikh Ibrahim Mosque: 1416: Juma Mosque (Baku) 1899: Ashur Mosque ...
Name Images Location Year/century G Remarks Agdam Mosque: Aghdam: 1868–1870: TS: Ajdarbey Mosque: Baku: 1912–1913: TS: Ali Mosque: Boradigah (): Ashaghi Govhar Agha Mosque
Baku also has many museums such as Baku Museum of Modern Art and National Museum of History, most notably featuring historical artifacts and art. Many of the city's cultural sites were celebrated in 2009 when Baku was designated an Islamic Culture Capital. [ 113 ]
The Bibi-Heybat Mosque (Azerbaijani: Bibiheybət məscidi) is a mosque, located in Baku, Azerbaijan.The existing structure, built in the 1990s, is a recreation of the mosque with the same name built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1934.
The rock carvings and petroglyphs, located at the part of the reserve called Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, display mesmerizing images of prehistoric life in the Caucasus. The well-preserved sketches display ancient populations travelling on reed boats; men hunting antelope and wild bulls, and women dancing. [3]
The image of this mosque and its brief description was given in the article of Andrei Pavlinov, who visited Baku and saw the mosque in 1888, published in the third issue of the journal "Materials on the Archeology of the Caucasus" (Moscow, 1893) [28] Historian Abbasgulu Bakikhanov wrote that Bakuvi taught and prayed in the mosque: "The cell ...
With the initiatives for saving the city in the 2000s, Baku embarked on a process of restructuring on a scale unseen in its history. Thousands of buildings from Soviet Period were demolished to make way for a green belt on its shores; parks and gardens were built on the land claimed by filling up the beaches of the Baku Bay .