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Azerbaijani President, Turkish PM visit Albanian Temple in Kish village of Sheki (PHOTO)

Politics Materials 13 September 2012 09:31 (UTC +04:00)
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his spouse Emine Erdogan visited the Albanian Temple in Kish village of Sheki on Wednesday.
Azerbaijani President, Turkish PM visit Albanian Temple in Kish village of Sheki (PHOTO)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 13 / Trend /

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva, Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his spouse Emine Erdogan visited the Albanian Temple in Kish village of Sheki on Wednesday.

They were informed that the Temple was built in the 1st century. The thick walls of the Temple are decorated with small windows.

The facility was reconstructed in 2003. The project was implemented with the support of prominent Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl.

President Ilham Aliyev and his spouse Mehriban Aliyeva, Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his spouse Emine Erdogan viewed tombs here.

En route from Kish, the Azerbaijani President and the Turkish Premier as well as their spouses visited houses of local residents, where they spoke with the family members and posed together for photographs.

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