Sacred Places
28 places found
IslamAdhai Din Ka Jhonpra
Ajmer · India · mosque
The oldest surviving monument in Ajmer and among the earliest Indo-Islamic mosques in India, its 1199 CE prayer hall and Iltutmish's 1213 CE arched screen rise on 344 pillars carved by Hindu and Jain craftsmen from earlier Temples.
IslamAdina Mosque
Pandua · India · mosque
Once the largest mosque on the Indian subcontinent, the Adina Mosque at Pandua in West Bengal was raised by Sultan Sikandar Shah between 1373 and 1375 as the congregational mosque of the Bengal Sultanate, and holds his tomb within its western wall.
IslamAjmer Sharif Dargah
Ajmer · India · dargah
The tomb of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, Gharib Nawaz, the benefactor of the poor, and the principal Sufi dargah of South Asia, where pilgrims of every community have offered chadars and shared the sweet rice of the great deghs for eight centuries.
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Akbarabadi Mosque
Delhi · India · mosque
A mosque raised in 1650 by Akbarabadi Begum, a wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, in the walled city of Shahjahanabad, demolished by British forces in the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising and today marked only by disputed, unexcavated remains beneath Netaji Subhash Park in Old Delhi.
IslamAlamgir Mosque
Varanasi · India · mosque
Raised in 1669 by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on the high bank above Panchganga Ghat in Varanasi, the Alamgir Mosque stands where wide stone steps meet the Ganges, its domes and surviving corner turret rising over a site earlier accounts describe as the Hindu Temple of Bindu Madhava.
IslamAtala Masjid
Jaunpur · India · mosque
A fifteenth-century congregational mosque in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, raised under the Sharqi Sultanate and crowned by a soaring central pishtaq nearly twenty-three metres tall, the Atala Masjid remains an active place of Friday prayer today.
IslamCharminar
Hyderabad · India · mosque
Rising on the eastern bank of the Musi River in Hyderabad's old city, the Charminar is a 1591 monument of four soaring minarets whose upper floor has held a working mosque for more than four centuries. Built by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah to mark the founding of his new capital, it stands today as both a civic emblem of Telangana and a living place of Friday prayer.
IslamCheraman Juma Masjid
Kodungallur · India · mosque
A mosque of deep antiquity at Methala in Kodungallur, Kerala, revered by tradition as the first mosque raised on Indian soil, and today a living place of Friday congregation newly restored to its original Kerala-style form under the Muziris Heritage Project.
IslamFatehpuri Masjid
Delhi · India · mosque
A seventeenth-century Sunni mosque at the western end of Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi, built in 1650 by Fatehpuri Begum, a wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, and second in size in the city only to the Jama Masjid.
IslamGyanvapi Mosque
· India · mosque
The Gyanvapi Mosque is a Sunni Muslim place of worship in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, built in the late seventeenth century beside the present Kashi Vishwanath Temple in one of India's most ancient sacred precincts.
IslamHaji Ali Dargah
Mumbai · India · dargah
The mazar of Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari stands on a rocky islet in the Arabian Sea off Worli, reached only on foot over a 700 yard causeway that the tides still command, and open to pilgrims of every faith.
IslamHazrat Nizamuddin Dargah
New Delhi · India · dargah
The tomb of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya, Mehboob-e-Ilahi, the Beloved of God, where qawwali was born and is still sung every evening between the master's mazar and that of his disciple Amir Khusrau.