A visit to The Temple of Eternal Fire - Ateshgah

The Temple of Eternal Fire - Ateshgah - is a bona fide Azerbaijani intriguing. It is notable for all intents and purposes everywhere throughout the world. It is found 30 km from the focal point of Baku in the suburb of Surakhany. This domain is referred to for such one of a kind regular marvel as consuming petroleum gas outlets (underground gas going onto surface contacts oxygen and lights up). The sanctuary in its present state was built in the seventeenth eighteenth hundreds of years. It was worked by the Baku-based Hindu people group identified with Sikhs.

Be that as it may, the historical backdrop of the Temple is much more. From times immemorial this was the sacred place of Zoroastrians-fire admirers (around start of our period). They credited magical hugeness to the inextinguishable fire and came there to venerate the relic.

The Ancient Zoroastrian Temple Ateshgah, BakuThe Ancient Zoroastrian Temple Ateshgah, BakuThe Ancient Zoroastrian Temple Ateshgah, Baku

After the presentation of Islam Zoroastrian sanctuary was devastated. Numerous Zoroastrians left to India and there proceeded with their love. Be that as it may, in the fifteenth - seventeenth hundreds of years the Hindus-fire admirers who came to Absheron with exchanging troops started to make journeys to Surakhany. The Indian dealers began erection of the sanctuary. The soonest sanctuary part is dated 1713. The most recent - the focal sanctuary holy place was worked with the help of vendor Kanchangar in 1810. Amid the eighteenth century houses of prayer, cells, a caravanserai were added to the focal piece of the sanctuary. On у can discover cut engravings in Indian lettering there.

In the mid nineteenth century the Temple obtained its present-day appearance. Ateshgah is a pentagonal structure with a castellation and passageway entrance. In the focal point of a yard the sacrificial stone haven executed as a stone thicket on which edges some more focuses are found towers. In the focal point of a sacred place - a well from which beat "unceasingly" consuming gas.

Over the passage entrance is a customary visitor room or "balakhane". Close to the sanctuary there is enormous pit where they used to consume groups of dead Hindus in the sacrosanct fire.

In the mid-nineteenth century because of the development of the surface the flammable gas yield stopped. Travelers deciphered it as the discipline from the divine beings and left. Ateshgah as a position of love existed until 1880. Today this antiquated Zoroastrian sanctuary has been opened for sightseers drawing in them with fake flames.