Bibi-Eybat

Recent History

In 2007, due to the expansion of the Bibi-Heybat highway and the reconstruction of the mosque of the same name, several dozen families of the Bibi-Heybat village were relocated to new homes. Also, a sports stadium and a kindergarten were rebuilt in the village, and a recreation park was set up around the new stadium to provide the population with a place for cultural and mass recreation ^[1] .

According to experts, the population of the village in 2013 was 2,227 people. ^[2] .

The complex “ Bibi-Heybat Mosque ” is located in Bibi-Eybat . In the second half of the 13th century, the Shirvans of Abu l Fath Farrukhzad built a mosque, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936 ^[3] . In the late 1990s, the mosque was recreated again. The existing complex now includes a mosque and tombs of revered people and is one of the significant monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan .

Near the village of Bibi-Eybat there is the oil and gas condensate field of the same name . Until the middle of the 19th century, oil was extracted from wells, and as early as July 14, 1848 (according to other sources, in 1846 ^[4] ), the world's first oil well was drilled in Bibi Heybat by a percussion method using wooden bars. Here, on the specially created platform, the first sea well in the former USSR was drilled. A number of oils from this field do not contain solid paraffins and can be used for the production of lubricating oils ^[5] .