Palace Of The Shirvanshahs



It s very unusual to see in a big city like baku a beautiful historical palace of shirvanshahs empire architecture and the rooms inside ruins of royal hamam mausoleum make you imagine that old times and how people had lived during the empire.

Palace of the shirvanshahs. The complex contains the main building of the palace divanhane the burial vaults the shah s mosque with a minaret seyid yahya bakuvi s m. It is in the inner city of baku. Palace of the shirvanshahs was declared a museum preserve in 1964.

Shirvanshahs literally means the kings of shirvan. A small ancient palace in the heart of baku city in old town. It s very unusual to see in a big city like baku a beautiful historical palace of shirvanshahs empire architecture and the rooms inside ruins of royal hamam mausoleum make you imagine that old times and how people had lived during the empire.

It was built in 15th century by shirvanshahs. Shirvan was the main territory and the first capital s name of the kingdom. This splendid confection of sandstone walls and domes was the seat of northeastern azerbaijan s ruling dynasty during the middle ages.

The palace of the shirvanshahs is a 15th century palace built by the shirvanshahs and described by unesco as one of the pearls of azerbaijan s architecture. It is located in the inner city of baku azerbaijan and together with the maiden tower forms an ensemble of historic monuments inscribed under the unesco world heritage list of historical monuments. Entrance fee is 10manat.

Palace of the shirvanshahs is the biggest monument of the shirvan absheron branch of azerbaijan architecture. Mostly 15th century it was painstakingly over restored in 2003 with artefacts adding interest plus one or two entertaining audiovisual surprises. Palace of the shirvanshahs was built on a hill during shirvanshah khalilullah s time 1417 1462.

Important piece of azerbaijani history shirvanhahs palace was built in 15 th century by shirvanshah kingdom who ruled mostly in the current territory of azerbaijan in 861 1538. The ticket is 15 mannat.