Ateshgah Of Baku



It is situated at about 30 kms from the city center and it takes time to arrive at the village of amirjan formerly known as surakhani in the suburbs of baku.

Ateshgah of baku. It was built between the 17th and 18th centuries abandoned for years and reopened in 1975 as a museum and not anymore as a. Ateshgah of baku consists of a temple indian monastic cells and visitor areas. Based on persian and indian inscriptions the temple was used as a hindu and zoroastrian place of worship.

Originally it is located 30km from the center of city baku in the surakhany suburb. The exterior blank wall that embraces all the ateshgah s cells and houses provide it with an old persian caravanserai appearance. It was abandoned in the late 19th century probably.

Ateshgah seems to have been built by local masters working on a plan by the indians who funded this monument. The baku ateshgah often called the fire temple of baku is a castle like religious temple in surakhani town a suburb in baku azerbaijan. Ateshgah black city of akunin it is about baku a city of oil secrets secrets and dangers.

The place is well familiar across the different countries of the world. The pentagonal complex which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for monks and a tetrapillar altar in the middle was built during the 17th and 18th centuries. The ateshgah fire temple looks like a humble.

ātash is the persian word for fire. It is well familiar due to the unique phenomenon of nature which is actually the burning of the natural gas. It is situated at about 30 kms from the city center and it takes time to arrive at the village of amirjan formerly known as surakhani in the suburbs of baku.

Fire temple is also known as the temple of eternal fire ateshgah.