Icherisheher
The old town inside Baku's fortress walls — its lanes, baths and caravanserais.
icherisheher.tut.az
Place
Ateshgah
A pentagonal temple in Surakhani with a gas flame at its centre — the end of a pilgrims' road.
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In brief
Ateshgah stands in Baku's Surakhani settlement. The complex took shape in the 17th–18th centuries: a fortress-like wall, cells around the perimeter and an altar in the middle, above a natural gas vent.
Indian, Persian and Sikh inscriptions survive on the cells — merchants and ascetics from India lodged here. It has been a museum since 1975.
Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY 4.0
On the site
- 01InscriptionsThe stone tablets and their translation
- 02PilgrimsWho came, and from where
- 03The flameGas, altar, ritual
- 04TravellersEuropean accounts and engravings
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