Brick and faith
Heritage
Ganja is an open-air museum of a city. Its mosques, mausoleums, baths and caravanserais are built of the distinctive red brick and keep the breath of the centuries.
Brick and faith
Ganja is an open-air museum of a city. Its mosques, mausoleums, baths and caravanserais are built of the distinctive red brick and keep the breath of the centuries.
Old Ganja is compact and dense with monuments: nearly everything important can be walked on foot, moving from mosque to mausoleum and from bath to caravanserai.
Heritage
The Juma Mosque (the Shah Abbas Mosque) is Ganja's main place of worship, built in the 17th century by the architect Sheikh Baha ad-Din. Its brick walls and minarets became a symbol of the city.
Nearby are the old Chokak bathhouse, caravanserais and the mausoleum of Javad Khan. Together they form a single historic centre.
Heritage
On the edge of the city stands the Imamzadeh complex with its blue dome — one of the most revered places in Ganja. An ensemble of buildings grew up around it over the centuries.
A separate sight is the Bottle House, whose walls are laid with tens of thousands of glass bottles forming patterns and pictures.
Monuments of Ganja
The 17th-century Shah Abbas Mosque in the centre.
A revered complex with a blue dome.
An old city bathhouse by the Juma Mosque.
A house of tens of thousands of glass bottles.
The condition of the monuments changes as restoration proceeds; information is given from open sources.