Indian fire temple Ateshgah is a popular and exotic attraction of Azerbaijan. It is located 30 km from Baku, in the South-East of Surakhany Absheron Peninsula. The territory on which the temple is known due to the unique natural phenomenon - burning natural gas.

Hindu temple was built in the XVII-XVIII centuries It was built lived in Baku Hindu community, belonging to the caste of Sikhs. Although the history of this Church began much earlier. Since ancient times the territory where today is the Ateshgah temple, was located the sanctuary of the Zoroastrian fire-worshippers, which gave the fire mystical significance and came here to worship the Shrine. After some time, when the spread of Islam, the temple of Zoroastrians destroyed. The majority of Zoroastrians left in India.

In the XV – XVII century came to Absheron with caravans of merchants are Hindus, Zoroastrians began to make pilgrimages to these places. Soon Indian merchants engaged in the construction. The earliest construction of the Indian temple dates back to 1713 as most later buildings, these include the Central temple is an altar, erected in 1810, with funds donated by merchant Mancanegara. During the XVIII century around the temple Ateshgah gradually emerged cells, chapel, and a caravanserai.

Modern fire temple is a pentagonal building, which consists of one room and 26 cells. The building is surrounded with a battlement with the entrance portal, which is a guest room – "Balakhani". In the centre of the courtyard one can see the rotunda of the temple altar with unquenchable fire. However, currently there is burning not natural fire, and artificial. All this is due to the fact that in the XIX C. the output of natural gas has stopped. After that, the fire-worshippers left the sanctuary, in assuming it as the wrath of the gods. Atashgah temple almost a century stood in ruins. Today he again opened to the public.