Nardaran

Nardaran is a settlement and municipality on the Abşeron Peninsula in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 8,300. Located 25 kilometers northeast of central Baku, it is politically part of the Baku city-subdivision and treated as a suburb. Unlike the rest of the country which is staunchly secular, Nardaran is a sole center of conservative Shi'a Islam in Azerbaijan. Nardaran's name come from Persian (Farsi): nar (pomegranate)نار + daran (trees) داران, i.e. "place with pomegranate trees".

Nardaran

Nardaran is a settlement and municipality on the Abşeron Peninsula in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 8,300. Located 25 kilometers northeast of central Baku, it is politically part of the Baku city-subdivision and treated as a suburb. Unlike the rest of the country which is staunchly secular, Nardaran is a sole center of conservative Shi'a Islam in Azerbaijan. Nardaran's name come from Persian (Farsi): nar (pomegranate)نار + daran (trees) داران, i.e. "place with pomegranate trees".