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Religion · Azerbaijan

From Tengrism to Islam: the beliefs, holy places and religious figures of the Turkic peoples.

Shrines

ShrineAteshgah Fire TempleA fire temple at Surakhani, built over natural gas flames. In the 17th–18th centuries it was a place of worship for merchants and pilgrims from India.Read more →
ShrineJuma Mosque of ShamakhiFounded in 743, one of the oldest mosques in the Caucasus.Read more →
ShrineBibi-Heybat MosqueA shrine on the Caspian shore south of Baku; its 13th-century mosque was destroyed in 1936 and rebuilt in the 1990s–2000s.Read more →
ShrineChurch of KishA Christian church near Shaki from the era of Caucasian Albania, now a museum.Read more →