Palatial mosque in Baku

Palatial mosque in Baku (Azerbaijani: Saray məscidi)– is a mosque of the 15th century, which is included in Shirvanshah’s palace complex in Baku.

Architecture

Plan of the mosque is rectangular. There is a small hall, small prayer room for women and serving rooms. The northern portal, rotated to a burial vault of Shirvanshahs is more solemn than the eastern one. The latter, which was coming down to underground exit, was intended for habitants of the palace.

Muhammad Mosque in Baku

Muhammad Mosque in Baku (Siniggala Mosque) is the mosque built in the 11th century in Icheri Sheher, Baku. The mosque is also known as Siniggala, for the name of its minaret – Siniggala (“damaged tower”). The mosque acquired its second name in 1723, when military squadron of Russian army, consisting of 15 warships and led by Admiral Matyushkin approached the city from seaside and demanded its surrender. Russian warships began to bomb the city after refusal. One of the shells hit in the minaret of Muhammad Mosque and damaged it. At that time blew stormy wind and took the Russian ships away to the sea. Population of the city interpreted it as a divine scourge sent to the occupants. From that time till the middle of the 19th century minaret of the mosque wasn’t reconstructed and was the symbol of persistence and courage of defendants of the tower.

Gilahli Mosque in Shaki

Gilahli Mosque (Azerbaijani: Şəkinin Giləhli məscidi) – is located in Shaki.

Architecture

This mosque is a bright example of how a domestic architecture influenced upon the architecture of quarterly mosques of Shaki, Ordubad and other cities of Azerbaijan during the 18th-19th centuries.

Ashaghi Govhar Agha Mosque

Ashaghi Govhar Agha Mosque (Azerbaijani: Aşağı Gövhar Ağa məscidi) is an Azerbaijani mosque located in Shusha, Karabakh region ofAzerbaijan about 350 km from capital Baku but is currently under control of Armenian forces since the occupation of Shusha on May 8, 1992.

Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque

Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque (Azerbaijani: Yuxarı Gövhar Ağa məscidi) is an Azerbaijani mosque located in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh. It is currently under the control of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since the capture of Shusha on 8 May 1992. The mosque also bears the nameBoyuk Juma Mosque of Govhar Agha.