Bibi-Heybat Mosque
Baku, Azerbaijan
No longer standing
Demolished or destroyed.
The Bibi-Heybat Mosque stands in the village of Bibiheybət near Baku, Azerbaijan, and is a Shia holy site. Built in 1281 under the Shirvan-Absheron school of Islamic architecture and credited to the architect Mahmud ibn Sa'd, the original was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936. The current structure, completed in the 1990s, replicates it.
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Movement
- Built
- Type
- mosque, destroyed building or structure
- Place
- Baku, Azerbaijan
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