page_title: Juma Mosque (Baku)
section_title: Jame  Mosque
hierarchical_section_title: Juma Mosque (Baku) / History / Jame  Mosque
caption_attribution_description: English: Juma Mosque (Baku) This is a photo of a monument in Azerbaijan identified by the ID 89
context_page_description: Juma Mosque, or Friday Mosque, is a mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan.
  The Cathedral Mosque was built in the 12th century on the site of a temple of Zoroastrians.
  There is an inscription on the mosque emphasize that “Amir Sharaf al-Din Mahmud ordered to restore this mosque in the month of Rajab 709 A.H. ”. On the northern wall of the mosque a minaret was erected which had been surrounded by stalactites in the year of 1437.
  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 philanthropist merchant Haji Shikhlali Dadashov. There are traces of a Zoroastrian temple at the site.
  In the cultural life of the medieval Azerbaijan the cathedral mosque served as socio-cultural centers.
context_section_description: Jame Mosque was built in the 12th century. A sophisticated design of the Mosque shows that it was built in several stages. Its main parts are a worship hall in the southern part and minarets in the north. There are small yards between the worship hall and the minarets. The most ancient part of the mosque is a square-shaped worship room. The room resembles kiosk mosques of the Seljuk period. Its cover was archaic. According to its exterior, this dome was constructed in style of the Maragha-Nakhchivan architectural school, which operated in the 12th century.
  The ornamental motifs covering the upper part of the dome is found in Seljuk period architectural monuments such as minarets of Shamkir, Garabagh and Atabeklar complex, Maragha Red Gumbez (Dome) Tomb, etc.
  
  Some scientists, in particular, Andrey Pavlinov, believed that the Juma Mosque was built on the remains of a temple of fire-worshipers.
caption: Juma Mosque with kitabe on minaret
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