Bibi Heybat Mosque
The Bibi Heybat Mosque ( Bibiheybət məscidi ) is a mosque on the outskirts of Baku that was originally built in the 13th century, during the time of the Shirvahshah , according to designs by the architect Mahmud ibn Saad. In 1936 it was the first religious site in Baku to be destroyed by the Bolsheviks during the campaign of militant atheism under Joseph Stalin - the monumental Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Baku) followed shortly afterwards . The mosque, named after the sister of the seventh Shiite Imam Ali, was rebuilt in the 1990s according to a design by the architect Fachraddin Miralay and ceremoniously handed over to its destination on July 11, 1997 by Heydär Äliyev , the then President of Azerbaijan . It is therefore one of the “reborn” places of worship in the post-Soviet countries.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 18 ′ 31 ″ N , 49 ° 49 ′ 13 ″ E