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Azeri president, Turkish PM visit Albanian temple in Sheki

13 September 2012 10:57 (UTC+04:00)
Azeri president, Turkish PM visit Albanian temple in Sheki

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

The Temple was built in the 1st century. The thick walls of the Temple have small windows.

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

President Aliyev and Premier Erdogan and their spouses viewed tombs here.

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

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