Three domes
And two tall minarets.
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A mosque on the Caspian shore south of Baku, with three domes and two tall minarets, and one of the holiest Shia sites in Azerbaijan, built over the tomb of Ukeyma Khanum, a daughter of the seventh Imam, Musa al-Kadhim, who tradition says fled to Baku from persecution under the Abbasids. The original mosque was built in the late thirteenth century at the behest of Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II by the architect Mahmud ibn Sa'd, who also built the Nardaran fortress near Baku. The French writer Alexandre Dumas visited it on his Caucasus journey in 1858 and 1859 and described it in his book. The old mosque was completely destroyed in the Soviet era in 1936 and rebuilt in the 1990s as a replica of the original, in pale stone with fine carved decoration and arched windows, and its courtyard looks out over the sea. Visiting is free and it draws both visitors and worshippers, so dress modestly, women cover their hair, and everyone removes their shoes. It is about a quarter of an hour by car from central Baku along the coast road.
And two tall minarets.
In pale stone.
From the courtyard.
Bibiheybat village on the coast road south of Baku
Because it was built over the tomb of Ukeyma Khanum, a daughter of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, drawing Shia pilgrims for centuries.