Religious monuments of Baku

Meet your guide at your hotel lobby at 10 am and then driver directly to the first ever point of our tour which is Fire temple - Ateshgah. It is a 16th-17th century temple of Zoroastrians and Hindu community of Azerbaijan, and functioned as karavansarai for the merchants coming to Azerbaijan from far Asian countries. 

Then you will have chance to see the biggest mosque of Caucasus region. Azerbaijan having the major muslim population of the region has long history with Islam. It was accepted as a official religion of the country in 7th century. You will visit Heydar Mosque built in 2015 and designed for around 10000 people to pray together. It is mainly open on Friday, but you will have chance to see inside of the mosque - If it is not possible to visit, then we will go to Bibiheybat mosque - another most important Islamic building of Azerbaijan

After visiting mosque, our guide will take you to Holy Saint Mary Catholic Church of Baku. The church is one of the main places of catholic christian community of the country. Church also can be closed and mainly open on Sunday. If there is not any chance to enter inside, your guide will take you to Russian Provaslav Church.

Third main religion in Azerbaijan is Judaism. Having long roots of Judaism in our country, it affected mainly to the northern, or north-western regions of Azerbaijan, During Soviet time, synagogues like other religious buildings were destroyed by government and some of them were renovated during the independence years.

Please note that, except Fire temple (now it is a museum complex), other religious monuments are open for public prays, that is why, they have some rules to follow. Using headscarf, different entrances for men and women, not allowing to enter with skirt or shorts can be some of them.