Baku Funicular
A short mountain railway from the boulevard up to the Alley of Martyrs — the city's simplest lift since 1960.
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Place
Bibiheybat Mosque
A shrine demolished in 1936 and rebuilt at the end of the 1990s.
Go to the site
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A separate third-level domain with its own design
in progress The site is in progress. The domain is reserved; design and texts are under way.
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
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01
History
From the Shirvanshahs to today
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02
1936
The demolition and its paper trail
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Rebuilding
Design, craftsmen, materials
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04
Visiting
Rules and how to get there
Related sites
Icherisheher
The old town inside Baku's fortress walls — its lanes, baths and caravanserais.
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Maiden Tower
Baku's emblem: an eight-tier stone cylinder and the questions nobody has settled.
qiz-qalasi.tut.az