Bibi-Heybat Mosque

Bibi-Heybat Mosque
Bibiheybət məscidi
Outside view of mosque in the daylight.
Religion
AffiliationIslam
DistrictShikhov
ProvinceBibiheybət
RegionAbsheron
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusMosque
Location
LocationBaku, Azerbaijan
Architecture
Architect(s)Fahraddin Miralay
TypeMosque
StyleIslamic
Shirvan Style
Minaret(s)2
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The Bibi-Heybat Mosque (Azerbaijani: Bibiheybət məscidi) is a historical mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan. The existing structure, built in the 1990s, is a recreation of the mosque with the same name built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936.

The Bibi-Heybat Mosque includes the tomb of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of The Islamic Prophet Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan.

It is sometimes known as "the mosque of Fatima", which is what Alexandre Dumas called it when he described the mosque during his visit in the 1850s.


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