Monuments
Ashur Mosque
Ashur Mosque
The mosque is also popularly called the Lezgi Mosque. This name was associated with the large number of workers who came to Baku from Dagestan during the "oil boom" that occurred in the 19th century.
At that time, the Ashur Mosque was given to workers of Lezgin origin to perform their prayers. The Ashur Mosque is a parallelepiped-shaped mosque with 2 small windows on the southern wall. During archaeological excavations carried out during restoration work in 1970, 2 semicircular arches belonging to the Sasanian period were discovered in the southern part of the monument. The Kufic inscription above the entrance to the mosque reads: "The power belongs to Allah". Another inscription located inside the mosque, above the door, reads: "Najjar Bakui Ashur usta bin. Ibrahim prepared it in the year 567 = 1171/72" The words are engraved. The 256th verse of the 2nd chapter of the Quran was engraved in large arabic calligraphy on the arch.
