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Alinja’s fabled castle
Guide books and local agencies have taken to calling Azerbaijan’s Alinja Castle the “Machu Picchu of the Caucasus”. Azerbaijan’s answer to Machu Picchu? Alinja Castle! A medieval fortress sitting atop a cragged mountaintop in the Julfa region. The site is actually a recent reconstruction of the former fortress used by...
Imamzadeh Mausoleum
Admire the gorgeous domes and facades of Imamzadeh Mausoleum, or Goy Imam Mosque, an important religious complex located 7 km north of Ganja. The complex consists of a mosque and mausoleum, the latter thought to have been originally built in the 14th century over the grave of 5th Imam Ibrahim, the son of Mahammad Bagir. In recent years it has been...
The first mosque in Azerbaijan
Shamakhi Juma Mosque, one of the oldest Muslim temples in Azerbaijan, as well as in the South Caucasus and the Middle East, was built in 743 in honor of the arrival of khalifa Khalid ibn Waliyah’s brother Muslim ibn Waliyah to Azerbaijan. Shamakhi’s greatest landmark is Juma Mosque, one of Azerbaijan’s largest and most lavish places of...
Ali and Nino walking tour of Baku
First published in Vienna in 1937, the novel ‘Ali and Nino’ tells the story of a romance between an Azerbaijani nobleman (Ali) and a Georgian princess (Nino), set against a backdrop of major historical events: World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. The novel is mainly set in Baku, but also moves to...
The Kur River in Mingachevir
The territory of Mingachevir was inhabited over 5,000 years ago and is thought to have been located on the former Silk Road. However, the modern city was built after World War II with the help of 10,000 German PoWs who were brought to construct the vast Mingachevir hydroelectric power station. The German influence is still visible in several buildings in the...
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