Sacred Places
28 places found
IslamSidi Saiyyed Mosque
Ahmedabad · India · mosque
A Sunni mosque raised in Ahmedabad in the final year of the Gujarat Sultanate, 980 AH (1572 to 1573 CE), cherished above all for its ten carved stone jali screens, the finest lattice work to survive from medieval Gujarat.
IslamSpanish Mosque
Hyderabad · India · mosque
A Moorish Revival mosque within the historic Paigah Palace in Hyderabad's Begumpet quarter, its tapering spires modelled on the Cathedral-Mosque of Cordoba make it unlike any other mosque on the subcontinent.
IslamTaj-ul-Masajid
Bhopal · India · mosque
Rising on a pink sandstone plinth in the old city of Bhopal, Taj-ul-Masajid, the Crown of Mosques, is the largest mosque in India, its twin eighteen-storey minarets and three white marble domes raised at the initiative of the Begums of Bhopal.
IslamTipu Sultan Mosque
Kolkata · India · mosque
A nineteenth-century mosque in central Kolkata built by Prince Ghulam Mohammed, youngest son of Tipu Sultan of Mysore, to keep his father's memory alive in the city where colonial authorities had exiled his family.