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Nardaran

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Nardaran 

an urban-type settlement in the Azerbaijan SSR, in Lenin Raion of the city of Baku. Carpets are manufactured, and there is a vegetable-growing and dairy sovkhoz. Among the noteworthy architectural monuments is a castle built in 1301 by the architect Makhmud, son of Saad, which is situated in the center of a square courtyard surrounded by a wall. There are baths, which were constructed in 1388 by the architect Hush-tasif, son of Musa, a mausoleum (14th century), and the khan’s summer house (15th century). The Hadji-Bahshi mosque, built in 1663 by the architect Murad Ali, is also in Nardaran.



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In Nardaran, a village 45 km from Baku, the capital's boulevards crammed with boutiques give way to a labyrinth of winding, dusty streets.
 
 
 
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