It took ten days to prepare the giant baklava. Ten confectioners baked the baklava.
The baklava was cut in the festivity in Heydar Aliyev square and distributed among 8400 people.
The festivity was held around great semeni (sprouting wheat) in the central square of the city. The length of the semeni is 17m and width 4m. The semeni, with the city’s emblem on it, has been prepared by the order of Gandja Executive Power.