Mosque of the Martyrs

The Mosque of the Martyrs or Martyrs' Mosque, officially the Alley of Martyrs' Mosque, also known as the Turkish Mosque and Shahid's Mosque, is a Sunni Islam mosque, located near the Martyrs' Lane, in the Upland Park district of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Overview

Construction of the mosque commenced at the beginning of the 1990s with the assistance of the Turkish government and was completed in 1996. Repairs were completed on the mosque in 2007 and the mosque closed for further repairs in 2009. The closure was attributed by some to disagreements between the Azerbaijani and Turkish governments regarding Armenia.
, the mosque was used as an official residence of religious attaché of the Turkish embassy. In 2017 the President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, visited the mosque.
The 154th ayah from Al-Baqara chapter of Quran is written on the façade of the mosque in Arabic and Turkish, and translated into English, reads: