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Cümə Mosque
Şәkis foremost mosque dates from the 18th-century and sports a standalone 28m brick minaret. Since 2015 the structure has been somewhat overshadowed by a new hotel construction site.
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Imam Huseyn Mosque
Overshadowed by vast new apartment towers is the fine Imam Huseyn Mosque, featuring some attractive Moorish and art nouveau stone-design elements.
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Bakı Gallery
This small commercial gallery is more affordable than many and has a particularly good selection if you want impressionistic canvasses of Baku.
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Həzrət Zohra Mosque
Built in pallid yellow brick the Həzrət Zohra mosque sports twin, rectilinear minarets and a metal-clad dome looking more like a lagged boiler tank.
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Yuxari Baş
A pleasant stroll into this villagelike area takes you past a small 1880 octagonal minaret in around 10 minutes’ walk heading east from the fortress walls.
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Bottle House
Worth a 20-second stop if youre passing, this residential home has been transformed into a quirky artwork using hundreds of beer, champagne and glass water bottles.
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Presidential Building
This Soviet-era regional administration building has served as the offices of the President since Karabakh’s breakaway from Azerbaijan. It is not open to the public
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Cümə Məscid
This octagonal mosque is Quba’s most distinctive historic building, painted a dull red and topped with a metallic dome forming a central point like a Prussian helmet.
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Heydar Əliyev Muzeyi
This modern palace of shiny marble is more interesting than other such hagiographic shrines elsewhere in Azerbaijan, if only because Naxçivan was Heydar’s home region.
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Lahıc History Museum
This quaint little one-room collection of cultural artefacts is housed in a former mosque next door to the tourist office. Posted opening times are far from fixed.
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Kiçik Qalart
Private gallery with changing exhibitions tucked between a pretty shaded garden and a section of city wall that features a medieval-style bomb-throwing catapult device.
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Nizami Statue
This fine statue of Azerbaijans 12th-century Shakespeare stands proud in the stepped gardens that lead up from the Literature Museum thats named in his honour.
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Xalça Muzeyi
Recognise the four main styles of Azeri carpetmaking or seek out the apparently non-ironic silk-wool carpet portrait of a young Heydar Əliyev, replete with Soviet medals.
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Yay Gallery
The most cutting edge of the Old City commercial galleries. The name means share epitomising the gallerys principle of sharing income equitably with its artists.
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Omar Əfəndiyev Mosque
This small, 19th-century mosque is a typical brick structure that fits harmoniously with the architecture of MF Axundzadə pr, looking especially attractive when uplit at night.
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Cümə Mosque
Şәkis foremost mosque dates from the 18th-century and sports a standalone 28m brick minaret. Since 2015 the structure has been somewhat overshadowed by a new hotel construction site.
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Şixov Beach
The nearest beach to central Baku, is most fascinating for photographers who want to snap bathers gambolling on the ‘sand’ with a romantic backdrop of giant offshore oil rigs.
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Günbəzli Hamam
This 18th-century brick hamam -ruin has a distinctive beehive dome but lies decrepit and forgotten on a street that has several patches of archetypal old-Quba architecture.
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House Museum
The lovers of perversely off-beat attractions can nonetheless admire Raşidbey Əfəndiyevs spectacles, family portraits and the textbooks which he penned at his loveably prosaic house museum .
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Cavadxan küç
The citys most appealing street has been recently beautified with attractive sculptures and restored housefronts on a succession of brick buildings, which date mostly from around 1900.
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