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Mir Movsum Aga Mosque, Baku, Azerbaijan
Mir Movsum Aga (“The Boneless One”) was a holy man who was believed to have no bones.
The double-domed shrine to Mir Movsum Aga is open 24 hours a day and receives dozens of visitors each day.
You enter on two levels. Women are allowed to enter at ground level, whereas men can take stairs to the raised entrance, which is specifically for men. Both entrances led to a large mirrored room, in the center of which is the tomb, surrounded by decorated grilles. They say that if you circle the tomb seven times, in an anticlockwise direction, thus you ensure that your prayers would come true.
Mir Movsum Aga Mosque, Baku, Azerbaijan
Mir Movsum Aga (“The Boneless One”) was a holy man who was believed to have no bones.
The double-domed shrine to Mir Movsum Aga is open 24 hours a day and receives dozens of visitors each day.
You enter on two levels. Women are allowed to enter at ground level, whereas men can take stairs to the raised entrance, which is specifically for men. Both entrances led to a large mirrored room, in the center of which is the tomb, surrounded by decorated grilles. They say that if you circle the tomb seven times, in an anticlockwise direction, thus you ensure that your prayers would come true.