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The most ancient cemetery of the city, where supposedly there is a grave of the poet of XV century Shahandan, brother of poet Imadaddin Nasimi. A mausoleum was erected on this grave in the 17th century, which has survived to this day. You can get inside. Also in the cemetery there is the grave of the Azerbaijani poet-satirist of the 19th century Seyid Azim Shirvani.
Cümə Məscidi
This mosque, built in 743 by Abu Muslim, is considered the oldest one in the Caucasus after the Friday mosque of Derbent (constructed in 734). It was built during the governance period of Caliphate's vicar in the Caucasus and Dagestan. The mosque underwent numerous damages due to plundering, earthquakes and wars. It was repeatedly repaired, especially after the earthquakes of 1859 and 1887. Strongly damaged as a result of the devastating earthquake of 1902, after which it was rebuilt and reconstructed in 1905-1910, by the architect Iosif Ploshko. The white-stone iron-concrete structure with iron domes also suffered as a result of a fire during the March 1918 events. In the Soviet years it was not used for its intended purpose and was repaired only in 1980. It was last reconstructed in 2009. The mosque was returned to its original appearance with the preservation of the old structure (side and rear walls, columns of the façade, etc.). In the courtyard of the mosque you can see old photographs of the mosque.
Qəbirstanlıq
A cemetery and a group of mausoleums, burial vaults of the Shirvan khans of the 18th and 19th centuries. Visitors can get inside only three of the four surviving mausoleums. The fourth one is in a dilapidated state. The tombstones inside the mausoleums are decorated more richly than the ones outside. Also, in the cemetery there is the grave of the Azerbaijani poet-satirist Mirza Alakbar Sabir of the XIX century.
Nəsimi Parkı
For poet Imadaddin Nasimi of the 14th century.
Mirzə Ələkbər Sabirin ev muzeyi
The house-museum of the Azerbaijani poet-satirist Mirza Alakbar Sabir, born in 1862 in Shamakhi. It was established in 1998 on the site of the house where he was born and contains 7 exposition rooms. There are about 600 exhibits stored relating to the poet and the era in which he lived and worked.
Complex includes the Museum of Heydar Aliyev, his Monument and a cozy Amphitheatre.
Gülüstan qalası
The ruins of this historic sight are a short hike out of Shamakhi. Built in the 8th-9th centuries, and rebuilt in the 12th-13th centuries. At the site of the excavation lies a lot of fragments of various medieval ceramics (sometimes with traces of medieval paint). Since July 2011, a second archaeological excavation is under way at Gulistan.