The city's pride
Nizami
Ganja gave the world one of the greatest poets of the East — Nizami Ganjavi. His name became the city's second name.
The city's pride
Ganja gave the world one of the greatest poets of the East — Nizami Ganjavi. His name became the city's second name.
Nizami Ganjavi is a classic of poetry, tied to Ganja all his life. His lines are known far beyond Azerbaijan, and his mausoleum became the city's calling card.
Nizami
Nizami Ganjavi was born around 1141 in Ganja and lived here all his life. He created the Khamsa — the "Quintet", a cycle of five poems that became a summit of Eastern poetry.
His poems — of love and wisdom, of justice and the search for truth — have been translated into dozens of languages and are still read eight centuries on.
The Khamsa
The five poems that made the poet's fame.
Nizami
The Nizami Mausoleum stands at the entrance to Ganja. The present building, in the form of a tall tower, was erected in 1991 on the site of earlier tombs known from chronicles since the 17th century.
Today it is a place of pilgrimage for all who love poetry, and one of the main symbols of Ganja and of all Azerbaijan.
Nizami's dates and the titles of the poems are rendered differently in various traditions; common variants are given here.