Indian temple of fire-worshipers Ateshgah is a popular and exotic attraction of Azerbaijan. It is located 30 kilometers from Baku, in the south-east of Surakhani settlement of the Apsheron Peninsula. The land on which the temple is located, is known for its unique natural phenomenon - the burning of natural gas outputs.

Indian temple was built in XVII-XVIII Art. It was built based in Baku Hindu community related to caste Sikhs. Although the history of this church started much earlier. Since ancient times, the territory of what is now the temple Ateshgah, was located the sanctuary Zoroastrian fire worshipers, who gave fire mystical significance and came here to pay homage to the shrine. After a while, when the spread of Islam Zoroastrian temple destroyed. Most Zoroastrians gone to India.

In the XV - XVII Art. got on the Apsheron with caravans of merchants Hindus-fire worshipers began to make pilgrimages to these sites. Soon, Indian merchants were engaged in construction. The earliest construction dates back to the Indian temple in 1713 With regard to the most recent buildings, then they include the central temple, the altar, built in 1810 with funds donated by the merchant Kanchanagara. During the XVIII century. around the temple Ateshgah gradually emerged cells, a chapel and a caravanserai.

Modern fire-worshipers temple is a pentagonal building, which consists of one room and 26 cells. The building is surrounded on all sides by jagged wall with entrance portal, on which there is a guest room - "Balakhani". In the center of the patio you can see the rotunda temple-altar with unquenchable fire. However, currently there is not a natural fire burns, and the artificial. All this is due to the fact that in the XIX century. Output of natural gas ceased. After that fire worshipers left the sanctuary by taking the whole thing as the wrath of the gods. Temple Ateshgah almost a century was in ruins. Today it is once again open to the public.