FRIDAY MOSQUE

The Friday mosque (Juma mosque or Khan mosque) was built between 1745 and 1750, in the traditional materials of Sheki, bricks and pebbles. A building housed in the religious school (madrasa) and an isolated minaret were then added to the nineteenth century. The facade of the mosque is relatively sober, its decorative motifs resulting from the only alternation of bricks and pebbles. The minaret of more than 28 m high is incrusted with diamond-shaped stones, one of the architectural characteristics of the region. The mosque complex was renovated in 1990, which explains its good state of conservation.