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Juma Mosque (Baku)

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Location
  
Branch/tradition
  
Shia Islam

Architectural style
  
Affiliation
  
Date established
  
1899

Architectural type
  
Mosque

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Juma Mosque (Azerbaijani: Cümə məscidi), or Friday Mosque, is a mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Located in the historic Icheri Sheher, the mosque has been rebuilt several times. The present Friday Mosque was built in 1899 under the financing of Baku merchant Haji Shikhlali Dadashov. There are traces of a Zoroastrian temple at the site. A minaret, constructed in 1437, adjoins Friday Mosque.

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Juma Mosque (Baku) Wikipedia


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