Baku recent comments:

New "SEDEREK" Shoping Centre.

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It is building of Ministry of Justice. Please, correct it.

bilirik.... lutfen bir juomle yazin ke har kim istiyur okosonlar bilsinler ne habardi.(sag ola siz)

Ingilice neje yazmak olur? yashar.

Nice hotel with a best fitnes and pool in Baku.

It is not a Zoroastrian fire temple, as the Parsi priest and academic Jivanji Jamshedji Modi determined in 1926, and Avesta scholar Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson determined in 1911. Both local records and the physical evidence indicate that it was a Hindu monastery, and the museum's staff, brochures, and tableax-like reconstructions all recognize it as such. Evidently, the place came to be spuriously associated with Zoroastrianism because Zoroastrians were the only "fire-worshipers" locals knew of. The popular fantasies notwithstanding, the structures as we know them today are the result of at least two building phases. The oldest part dates to 1723 (the building bears an inscription to this effect), the latter to the early 1800s. The building was in continuous use by Hindu ascetics until the the gas ran out during the Soviet era. As the inscriptions in Sanskrit and Punjabi indicate, the structures were dedicated to Jwalaji, an avatar of Parvati, consort of Shiva. Jwalaji (lit: "venerable '-ji' flame 'jwala-'") is a figure of Hindu mythology and there are dozens, if not hundreds, of temples dedicated to her. As is also the case for the building at Surkhani, Jwala temples don't have the usual trappings associated with Hindu worship. The reason why Hindu ascetics went to such troubles in such a remote location (even Baku, which was always much bigger than Surkhani, had merely 5000 inhabitants in the early 1800s) has its roots in Hindu beliefs: According to Hindu mythology, Vishnu destroyed Parvati by tearing her body apart with 10,000 arrows. The pieces of Parvati flew through the air and dispersed all over the world. Where they landed, the land became "Shaktipeth", and jets of fire shot out of the ground. In this fashion (so the myth) Parvati could continue to venerate Shiva. The largest and most venerated of the Jwala temples is in Jwalamukhi, Himachal Pradesh, India. The city and temple are so called because (according to the myth outlined above) Parvati's tongue landed there. Hence "Jwalamukhi", which means "flame-mouthed". Being cremated with the fires of Jwala is (supposedly) a particularly meritorious. Accordingly, Jwala shrines, including the one at Surkhani, are/were popular destinations for those about to die.

It's not Qiz Qalasi. It's parachute tower. Neo-soviet building.

Всётаки метро в Баку красивее чем в Москве!

Здесь в бассейне я занимался водным поло

Я в ней учился)))

ooooo My favorite time in highschool, I was studied there 1996 - 2007, eleven years... Orkhan Rasulov

Great Building

Byvshij sad Pionerov

667.7 IPAF CEFEROV RAMIN

the rpize,please

it is nice and good place

Hi, Ximikator :)

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