Baku: 2010

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Baku

Azeraijani Flag

Late president Heydar Aliyev

Flower Day for late presadent Heydar Aliyev

Caspian Sea

Bench by the Caspian Sea

Shop

Local Wildlife

Statue

Old Town Archeology on display

Old part of City

New Buildings

Baku City

Bird House

Fountain

Martyrs' Lane Eternal Flame

Martyrs' Monument

Statue

Tallest flag pole in Azerbaijan

Statue of poet Nizami Ganjari

Tv Tower

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Baku (Old City)

Part of the wall in the old city

Updated road in old city

Tower in old city

Old city gates

Looking thou trees to the city

Maiden Tower

Old Baths

Round the old city

Mosque in Old City

Maiden Tower from outside Old City

Narrow road

Saturday, September 4, 2010

A mosque is a place where Muslims go to worship. The mosque serves two prepossess: first it serves the Muslim a place to come together to pray and second for a center to get information, education as well as to settle a dispute. The mosques first started in the 7^th century AD from an open air space to become elaborate domes and prayer halls. The mosque started on the Arabian Peninsula and then it has spread to all the other continents through out the entire world. The Five Pillars of Islam states that Muslims are required to give approximately one-fortieth of their wealth to charity. Since mosques form the center of Muslim communities, they are where Muslims go to both give zakat and, if necessary, collect it. Prior to a holiday, a special zakat is collected that is supposed to assist in helping poor Muslims attend the prayers and celebrations associated with the holiday. Ramadan is Islam's holiest month. During this time Muslims must fast from food. They are to fast food from sunrise to sunset, and are required to pray during the day. One of the roles that mosques play for Islam is for the purification of the soul and strengthening the ties of mutual cooperation among the Muslims.

Info on Lenkoran

Lenkoran is a very important city, because it is the last good sized city that is close to the border of Iran. It is in the southern part of Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea and is around 25 miles to the border of Iran. It's population is around 45,000 people who mostly are Iranian Talysh, because Azerbaijan's southern border used to stretch further south into part of Iran until it got pushed more to the north where is sits to this day. I believe the shrinking of Azerbaijan's border happened around 1991. And that is why a lot of the population of Lenkoran is Iranian Talysh. So getting the good news to be spread in Lenoran is very important to getting the good news of Jesus into the northern part of Iran and from there into the rest of Iran.

Info on Old City

The old city was first built in the 13^th century AD. It was a fortress of Bad-Kube with its narrow and winding streets. Back when the city was first built it had several mosques, of Synyk-Kala which dates from the 11^th century. And they built a Maiden's Tower which came from the 12^th century. When the Russian government took control of Baku in the beginning of the 19^th century, the city took on a whole new look with many beautiful European style buildings which where constructed in the 19^th century and into the beginning of the 20^th century.