The mosques we saw in Baku’s Old Town were Shiites, our guide reminded us. “In Shaki, in the north, you will see a different design in mosques, because Shaki is one of Azerbaijan’s Sunni cities.” We did not have to wait until then, however, to see a Sunni mosque. Although “Baku is a center of Shiism,” the Turkish designed Shahidlar Mosque, a short distance from the Old Town, was a Sunni mosque. “In the 1990s Turkey brought the materials and everything and built this,” our guide told us.