One day in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan

A day through Shamakhi’s best-known sights that lie close together: Friday Mosque of Shamakhi, House-Museum of Mirza Alakbar Sabir, Imamzadeh Mausoleum, Shirvan Domes and Yeddi Gunbaz mausoleum. 5 stops, about 1.6 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Friday Mosque of ShamakhiMosque · On the map
  2. House-Museum of Mirza Alakbar SabirMuseum · 0.3 km on from Friday Mosque of Shamakhi · On the map
  3. Imamzadeh MausoleumMonument · 0.4 km on from House-Museum of Mirza Alakbar Sabir · On the map
  4. Shirvan DomesMonument · 0.9 km on from Imamzadeh Mausoleum · On the map
  5. Yeddi Gunbaz mausoleumMonument · Next to Shirvan Domes · On the map

5 stops, 2.2 km on foot along the streets: about 30 min of walking.

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Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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