Ateshgah of Baku (Fire Temple of Baku)

The Ateshgah of Baku (also spelled Atashgah) is a pentagonal temple complex located in Surakhany on the Absheron Peninsula near Baku. The extant structure features a central altar and surrounding cells (historically described as twenty-four) and is widely interpreted as having been constructed in the early modern period (commonly dated in tourist literature to the 17th–18th centuries) over an earlier place of fire worship. Epigraphic and architectural evidence recorded in scholarly sources connects the site to Hindu and Sikh pilgrims (including Udāsī associations) as well as to the region’s longer tradition of fire-veneration.