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The Bibi-Heybat Mosque (Azerbaijani: Bibiheybət məscidi, Persian: مسجد بیبی هیبت) is located in the village of Bibiheybət, near Baku, Azerbaijan. The current structure, completed in the 1990s, replicates the original 13th-century mosque built at the behest of Iranian Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II. The historic mosque was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936.
It is occasionally called "the Mosque of Fatima", which is how Alexandre Dumas referred to it during his visit in the 1850s.
The mosque was built over the tomb of the daughter of the seventh Shiite Imam - Musa al-Kadhim, who fled to Baku from persecution of Abbasid caliphs.
An inscription carved in stone on the tomb indicates that Ukeyma Khanum belonged to the sacred family: "Here was buried Ukeyma Khanum, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, the granddaughter of the sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, the daughter of the Seventh Imam Musa al-Kadhim, sister of the eighth Imam Ali al-Ridha".
Based on the inscriptions on the south wall of the mosque, historians attribute its construction to the late 13th century. Arabic inscription on the mosque wall reads: "The work Mahmud ibn Sa'd", which is the same architect who built the Nardaran Fortress near Baku.
Haji Sheikh Sharif was among many Muslims who is buried near the mosque. He arrived in Baku to spread Sufism, and spent the rest of his life in this mosque.
The renowned French writer Alexandre Dumas, who visited the region in 1858-1859, wrote about the mosque in his book Voyage to the Caucasus: “This mosque is a place of pilgrimage for barren women who come there on foot, spend nine days in prayer, and return home confident that they will bear a child within the year”. According to the writer, the poetess Khurshidbanu Natavan (whom Dumas refers to as Princess Khazar Utsmiyeva) made a pilgrimage to the mosque, and after she gave birth to a son, her husband, Khasay Khan Utsmiyev, built a road from the mosque to Baku as an expression of his gratitude.
References to the mosque also appear in the writings of various local and European explorers and travelers, including Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Ilya Berezin, Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, Nicholas Khanykov and Yevgeni Pakhomov.
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Bibi-Heybat Mosque
The Bibi-Heybat Mosque (Azerbaijani: Bibiheybət məscidi, Persian: مسجد بیبی هیبت) is located in the village of Bibiheybət, near Baku, Azerbaijan. The current structure, completed in the 1990s, replicates the original 13th-century mosque built at the behest of Iranian Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II. The historic mosque was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936.
It is occasionally called "the Mosque of Fatima", which is how Alexandre Dumas referred to it during his visit in the 1850s.
The mosque was built over the tomb of the daughter of the seventh Shiite Imam - Musa al-Kadhim, who fled to Baku from persecution of Abbasid caliphs.
An inscription carved in stone on the tomb indicates that Ukeyma Khanum belonged to the sacred family: "Here was buried Ukeyma Khanum, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, the granddaughter of the sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, the daughter of the Seventh Imam Musa al-Kadhim, sister of the eighth Imam Ali al-Ridha".
Based on the inscriptions on the south wall of the mosque, historians attribute its construction to the late 13th century. Arabic inscription on the mosque wall reads: "The work Mahmud ibn Sa'd", which is the same architect who built the Nardaran Fortress near Baku.
Haji Sheikh Sharif was among many Muslims who is buried near the mosque. He arrived in Baku to spread Sufism, and spent the rest of his life in this mosque.
The renowned French writer Alexandre Dumas, who visited the region in 1858-1859, wrote about the mosque in his book Voyage to the Caucasus: “This mosque is a place of pilgrimage for barren women who come there on foot, spend nine days in prayer, and return home confident that they will bear a child within the year”. According to the writer, the poetess Khurshidbanu Natavan (whom Dumas refers to as Princess Khazar Utsmiyeva) made a pilgrimage to the mosque, and after she gave birth to a son, her husband, Khasay Khan Utsmiyev, built a road from the mosque to Baku as an expression of his gratitude.
References to the mosque also appear in the writings of various local and European explorers and travelers, including Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, Ilya Berezin, Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Dorn, Nicholas Khanykov and Yevgeni Pakhomov.
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