Architect Adolf Eichler

Born in 1869 in the city of Baku. In 1862, his grandfather Wilhelm Eduard Eichler, Master of Chemistry at Moscow University, accepted an invitation from the Baku oilman Vasiliy Aleksandrovich Kokorev to move to Baku to work at the Surakhani oil refinery. So the famous German family ended up in the industrial center of the South Caucasus. The future architect studied at the Moscow Art Academy, which he graduated with a silver medal. In the period from 1892 to 1911, he worked as a district architect of the Baku city government. During this period, he designed and built dozens of residential buildings. One of the most important projects of Adolf Eichler is the Church of the Savior in Baku (now the Lutheran Church on 28 May Street). The second sacred project of the architect is a Muslim mosque in the national-romantic style, projected and built by the order of the Baku millionaire Haji Hajibaba ogly Ashumov. The architect Adolf Eichler died in 1911, having committed suicide for unknown reasons.