EU: Elddyrkaretemplet, Baku (1900)
1900 Baku, Azerbaijan
The 'Elddyrkaretemplet', Swedish for fire-worshippers' temple, near Baku, photographed around 1900; sites of this kind were long associated with Zoroastrian and Hindu fire rituals fed by the region's natural gas seeps.
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