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An urban landscape previously dominated by minarets was now dotted with Orthodox and Apostolic churches, Catholic and Lutheran cathedrals, and a beautiful synagogue located in downtown Baku that was donated by the local municipality in the early s. Whatever the rationale behind this gift, it was not, as some have alleged, to reveal the number of Jews living in this now infamous Pale of the Settlement introduced by the anti-Semitic imperial authorities. e enormous influx of a very diverse population accounted for the rapid growth of the city outside of the original fortress walls.