The Ateshgah Temple In Azerbaijan Royalty-Free Stock Photography

The Ateshgah, often called the Fire Temple of Baku is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani, a suburb in Baku, Azerbaijan. Based on Persian and Indian inscriptions, temple was used as a Hindu and Zoroastrian place of fire worship. The pentagonal complex, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for monks and a tetrapillar-altar in the middle, was built during the 17th and 18th centuries.