Khidir mosque

About Khidir mosque

A mosque and historical architectural monument located in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Khidir Mosque is one of the oldest mosques of Baku's Old City, standing on Muslim Magomayev Street near the walls of Icheri Sheher; it is a former mosque and a national architectural monument. It was completed in the 14th century under the Shirvanshahs, the rulers of Shirvan who made Baku their capital and built their famous palace there, and was registered as a national architectural monument by decision No. 132 of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated 2 August 2001. The mosque is named after Khidr (al-Khidr), the righteous figure widely revered in Islamic tradition and in the culture of the Caucasus. It is small, built of the pale local limestone from which the whole Old City is made, with a simple domed prayer hall and a modest entrance pictured on Wikimedia Commons, and it has been restored in recent decades. The mosque bears witness to the Shirvanshah layer of Baku's architecture, to which the Maiden Tower and the Palace of the Shirvanshahs also belong, and makes a quiet stop in the lanes of the Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Baku, Azerbaijan