Icherisheher
The old town inside Baku's fortress walls — its lanes, baths and caravanserais.
icherisheher.tut.az
Place
Bibiheybat Mosque
A shrine demolished in 1936 and rebuilt at the end of the 1990s.
Go to the sitebibiheybet.tut.azA separate third-level domain with its own design
in progress
How it will look: each site gets its own colour scheme and structure.
In brief
The mosque stands on the southern shore of Baku bay beside the oil fields. A medieval complex built under the Shirvanshahs stood here until it was blown up by the Soviet authorities in 1936.
The rebuilding was finished in the late 1990s: three domes, two minarets and the trace of the old plan. It is now one of the most visited mosques in Baku.
On the site
- 01HistoryFrom the Shirvanshahs to today
- 021936The demolition and its paper trail
- 03RebuildingDesign, craftsmen, materials
- 04VisitingRules and how to get there
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Maiden Tower
Baku's emblem: an eight-tier stone cylinder and the questions nobody has settled.
qiz-qalasi.tut.az
Shirvanshahs' Palace
A 15th-century palace complex: divankhana, mosque, bathhouse and the rulers' tomb.
shirvanshahlar.tut.az