Albanian temple in Zod village

Near Zod villa­ge, Basarkec­har district, Goycha mahal.

The name of Zod village was changed to Sotk on 09.04.1991.

Architec­ture

In the 1960s, the Hays Arme­nianized them by putting their crosses and inscrip­tions on them.

According to some explanations, "Zod" in ancient Turkic languages means "a village, a place of residence in a hard, impassable high mountainous area". In the villages of Dashkand and Zod, 4-5 km south-east of this village, was built an Albanian temple belonging to the II-I century BC, which was quadrangular in shape, its height reached 10 m, and its top was covered with raft stones.

The village has been inhabited by Azerbaijanis since ancient ti­mes. The temp­le and its sur­roun­dings were the home of Tur­kic-Oghuz tribes.