Alley of Martyrs first served as former cemetery,where were buried the bodies of victims of the March Events of 1918 which defended country in Battle of Baku.
Some of its first men who were honored by the newly instated memorial were those that died during Black January events of 1990 when Soviet forces invaded Baku.
During military campaign of 1992-1993, Armenia has occupied 20 percent of the Azerbaijani territory. The memorial was again used for men who died in the Nagorno-Karabakh War. As an outcome of the war, more than one million of by Armenia. Martyrs’ Lane is also home to Baku Turkish Martyrs’ Memorial, the larger memorial to the 1,130 Turkish troops, which were killed while fighting Bolshevik and Armenian forces in the Battle of Baku in 1918. Next to the memorial there is Martyrs Mosque also built by Turks.