Haji Eybata Mosque

About Haji Eybata Mosque

Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan

The Haji Heybat Mosque is a small historic mosque in the Old City of Baku (Icheri Sheher), on the narrow Kichik Gala Street near the fortress walls, registered as an architectural monument of local significance. It was built in 1206 AH (1791/1792 CE) in the era of the Baku Khanate to a design by the architect Haji Heybat Amir Ali oghlu, whose name it bears, and belongs to the group of small neighbourhood mosques that served the quarters of the walled city; it is now classed as a former mosque no longer in regular use for prayer. The building is notable for its plain stone facade and its decorated arched doorway, pictured on Wikimedia Commons, and is an example of Baku mosque architecture of the late 18th century, when the Old City contained dozens of small mosques, many named after their builders or the quarter they served. Visitors come across it while wandering the lanes of Icheri Sheher, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, between the Maiden Tower and the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, and it makes a brief stop for lovers of Islamic architecture and local history.

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Baku, Azerbaijan