View of the old mosque before restoration in 1911īased on the writings on the south wall of a mosque, historians attribute the construction by the end of the 13th century.
On the tomb there is carved on a stone inscription indicating that Ukeyma Khanum belongs to the sacred family: ' Here was buried Ukeyma Khanum, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, the granddaughter of the sixth Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq, the daughter of the Seventh Imam Musa al-Kadhim, sister of the eighth Imam Ali al-Ridha'. The mosque was built over the tomb of the daughter of the seventh Shiite Imam - Musa al-Kadhim, who fled to Baku from persecution of Abbasid caliphs. It is sometimes known as 'the mosque of Fatima', which is what Alexandre Dumas called it when he described the mosque during his visit in the 1850s. The Bibi-Heybat Mosque includes the tomb of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of The Islamic Prophet Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan. The existing structure, built in the 1990s, is a recreation of the mosque with the same name built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936.
The Bibi-Heybat Mosque ( Azerbaijani: Bibiheybət məscidi) is a historical mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan.
