Sacred Places
28 places found
IslamJama Masjid, Agra
Agra · India · mosque
The Jama Masjid of Agra rises in red sandstone and white marble beside Agra Fort, a congregational mosque that Princess Jahanara Begum, eldest daughter of Shah Jahan, personally endowed and gave to the city's Friday prayer.
IslamJama Masjid, Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad · India · mosque
The Jama Masjid of Ahmedabad has gathered the city's Friday congregation since Sultan Ahmad Shah I inaugurated it on 4 January 1424, its forest of two hundred and sixty carved pillars rising in yellow sandstone at the heart of the old walled city.
IslamJama Masjid, Champaner
Champaner · India · mosque
A grand Friday mosque raised in 1513 within the fortified Sultanate capital of Champaner, its twin thirty metre minarets and carved sandstone screens ranked among the finest achievements of Gujarat's Indo-Islamic architecture.
IslamJama Masjid, Delhi (Masjid-i-Jahan-Numa)
Delhi (Old Delhi) · India · mosque
The imperial congregational mosque of Mughal Delhi, built by Shah Jahan between 1650 and 1656, whose red sandstone courtyard holds some 25,000 worshippers in salah beneath three striped marble domes and two 40-metre minarets.
IslamJama Masjid, Jaunpur
Jaunpur · India · mosque
Known locally as Badi Masjid, the great mosque, this fifteenth century Friday mosque of the Sharqi sultans rises on the Gomti's bank in Jaunpur, its towering pishtaq gateway among the largest in India and still gathering worshippers for jumu'ah prayer today.
IslamMecca Masjid
Hyderabad · India · mosque
Rising in dressed grey granite beside the Charminar in Hyderabad's old city, Mecca Masjid takes its name from bricks said to be made of soil brought from the holy city of Makkah, and stands among the largest mosques in India, still gathering thousands for Friday prayer.
IslamMoti Masjid
Agra · India · mosque
The Pearl Mosque of Agra Fort, raised in white marble for the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan between 1647 and 1653, its domes rising serene above the fort's red sandstone ramparts.
IslamMoti Masjid, Delhi
Delhi · India · mosque
A small, luminous white marble mosque tucked within the Red Fort at Old Delhi, built as Emperor Aurangzeb's own private place of prayer and among the last great flowerings of Mughal devotional architecture.
IslamNakhoda Masjid
Kolkata · India · mosque
At the crossing of Zakaria Street and Rabindra Sarani in Kolkata's Burrabazar quarter, Nakhoda Masjid is the principal mosque of the city, a Hanafi Sunni congregation whose prayer hall holds some 10,000 worshippers beneath twin 151-foot minarets.
IslamPanbari Mosque
Panbari · India · mosque
The earliest surviving mosque in Assam, a three-domed Bengal Sultanate structure of the 15th or 16th century standing near Rangamati hill, some 25 kilometres east of Dhubri town.
IslamShahi Sunehri Masjid
Delhi · India · mosque
An early eighteenth-century Mughal-era mosque on Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi, its three gilded domes raised in 1721 by the noble Roshan-ud-Daula and still gathering the faithful for daily prayer above the street's ceaseless trade.
IslamSidi Bashir Mosque
Ahmedabad · India · mosque
The surviving gateway and twin minarets of a fifteenth-century Sufi mosque in Ahmedabad, known across Gujarat as Jhulta Minar, the Shaking Minarets, for a swaying resonance between the two towers that has never been fully explained.