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At 6:30 in the morning the call to prayer from the mosque woke me up -this was a Sunni azan as it did not mention the Shiite Imams. It was from the Djuma (Community) Mosque in the center of town.
It was not difficult to imagine that much of these implements were still being used in the homes of today’s Shaki, a town with the population of some 63,000.
Mst of the other items were not for martial use. There were the main instruments of the mugham music, the tar, kamancheh and negara in one display.
On the grounds of the Palace compound there was an old church which was now used as a museum for artifacts of the Khanate period. There was a metal sinaband (chest shield), but most of the other items were not for martial use.
Stained-glass windows enclosed within an intricate wooden latticework, called shabaka, which were assembled without nails or glue.
The exterior is done with tiles of ochre, turquoise, and dark blue in geometric patterns which surround stained-glass windows enclosed within an intricate wooden latticework, called shabaka.
The Palace has a garden with an impressively tall, 1,150 meters, chinar (plain) tree, planted six centuries ago. The Palace itself is surprisingly modest in size. It is a two-story masonry structure, each floor only one-room deep, and both floors the same with three rectangular chambers, separated by a narrow corridor, and two iwans facing the garden.
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