The monument, which was the only building completed in Azerbaijan in the 14th century with four minarets, was in the form of a pilgrimage mausoleum, according to Dorn,[citation needed] an academic.

][citation needed] the granddaughter of the 5th Imam of Ismaili and Jafari Shiite, Muhammad al-Baqir, was buried in the Barda mausoleum.

Mohammed al-Baqir's third son, Ibrahim Isa, was buried in 739 in the Imamzadeh Complex near Ganja.

The Imamzadeh Mausoleum at Barda was rebuilt in 1868 by Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi, who was instrumental in the development of Karabakh architecture.

Believers who died in other places but were buried in a cemetery around the Imamzadeh mosque in Barda, according to their testimony.