The tomb has a polygonal conical plan structure hosting inside the grave of the deceased.

[6] The heavy fighting forced the entire population to flee eastwards, making Aghdam a ghost town.

[7] As part of an agreement that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, the town and its surrounding district were returned to Azerbaijani control on 20 November 2020.

Western diplomats who visited Martyrs' Alley reported that there were holes where bodies had formerly been interred and that there was just one damaged tombstone left in the cemetery.

[11][12] Furthermore, the mausoleum of Panah Ali Khan sustained major damage sometime before 2004 and the tomb of Khurshidbanu Natavan was destroyed and vandalized.