Trip to Shamakhi - Lahij

The First of all, we will visit to Diri Baba Mausoleum, located at Gobustan town, Maraza city. So Diri Baba Mausoleum is two-storeyed mosque of the 15th century. For a long time, local residents believed in a legend that a sacred person called Diri Baba was buried here and remained imperishable.

Shamakhi Juma Mosque always distinguished with its volume and silhouette. Among cultic and civil monuments of Azerbaijan because of the correlation with earlier monuments of Islamic architecture. Which keeps its composition center. The ancient internal planning organization of the mosque remains till now, in spite of the multiple reconstructions.

Barely 2 km across the valley from Shamakha and with an excellent view back onto the city are the famous Yeddi Gumbaz (seven tombs in Azeri), In fact only three of these desecrated octagonal royal tombs remain reasonably complete. They are the 18th-/early 19th-century mausolea of the khans of Shamakha. The last khan, Mustafa, had fled to his palace at Fitdag/Sulut to avoid the advancing Russians, but was finally buried here along with his ancestors. Some of the surrounding gravestones are much more ancient - as much as a millennium old.

There is no exact data of the origin of the Lagich settlement and the chronicle of this place is based on the legend. According to one of them, Persian shah Kai Khosrow killed a respectable ruler of one of the cities in the struggle for power. It caused indignation of masses. In order to save own life, he fled the country. The shah found shelter in the mountains not far from current place of Lagich where he spent the rest of his life. The village was formed by his servants and their families from the tribe lagich, who settled near the shelter of their master. Gradually, the settlement expanded and turned into artisans’ center. It was already then, hundred years ago, when copper became the main material of Lagich craftsmen. Local dwellers learned to melt it in their motherland, in Iran. In the new place, artisans developed their skills and established trade connections. Craftsmen workshops with melting stoves appeared on the territory of the village and the fame of beautiful and unique copper pieces spread around.