Jumma Mosque

Nearby the Hotel you can visit second oldest mosque in the Caucasus – Jumma Mosque (743 y.).

Shamakhi Juma Mosque, one of the oldest Muslim temples in Azerbaijan, as well as in the South Caucasus and the Middle East, was built in 743 in honor of the arrival of khalifa Khalid ibn Waliyah’s brother Muslim ibn Waliyah to Azerbaijan. According to some sources, the Khazar kagan, defeated by the Caliphate armies, embraced Islam in this mosque.