Evolution of Mosques from Muhammad House to Jama Masjid

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Quwwat Ul-Islam Mosque

Location:Delhi
Dyansty:Slave
Nizamu Al-Din
Location:Delhi
Dynasty:Khilji
Jami Masjid
Location:Delhi
Dynasty:Tughluq
Khriki Masjid
Location:Delhi
Dynasty:Tughluq
Moth Mosque
Location:Delhi
Dynasty:Sayyid and Lodi
Adina Mosque
Location:Pandua, Bengal
Provincial Style
Katra Mosque
Location:Murshidabad, Bengal
Provincial Style
Atala Mosque
Location:Jaunpur
Provincial Style
Junagadh Mosque
Location:Gujarat
Provincial Style
Jami Masjid
Location:Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Provincial Style
Jami Masjid
Location:Mandu,Malwa
Provincial Style
Jami Masjid
Location:Gulbarga,Deccan
Provincial Style
Shah Hamadan Mosque
Location:Srinagar,Kashmir
Provincial Style
Baburi Mosque
Location:Panipat

Mughal-Babur
Kachpura Mosque
Location:Agra
Mughal-Humayun
Jami Masjid
Location:Fatehpur Sikri
Mughal-Akbar
Pattar Mosque
Location:Srinagar
Mughal-Jahangir
Moti Mosque
Location:Agra
Mughal-Shah Jahan
Jama Masjid
Location:Delhi
Mughal-Shah Jahan

-Mohammad House
Location:Medina,Saudi Arabia
Prophet's mosque is known as Al-Masjid Al-Nawabi
Built near the Prophet's House
Originally, the mosque was an open-air building made of palm trunks and mud wall
s.
The Prophet included a section in the mosque called the suffah, a shady place wh
ere strangers and needy people could take shelter.
The mosque served several purposes: a place of worship, a community center,
a court, and a religious school.
Initially, the prayers faced Jerusalem; however, the qibla was later changed to
Mecca.
The most distinct aspect of the mosque is a green dome called t he Dome of the P
rophet
Reconstructed several times
-The first mosque in India, Quwwat al-Islam Mosque in Delhi, was also built as a
series of arches and domes.
But Indian craftsmen who did not know the principles of true arch and true dome
and how to construct them
used another method of corbelling.Indian masons imitated shapes only superficial
ly.
-Mosques from the Khalji onward, having acquired the techniques of Islamic archi
tecture,
were fundamentally of the arabian type with the plan of hypostyle oblong hall,
but the Khirki Masjid presents a peculiar plan, having four courtyards.
-Mosques came to be surmounted symbolically with Persian-style domes as the main
fashion,

and it became the definitive form to arrange three domes continuously on a oblon
g worship hall:Eg.Moth ki Masjid from Lodi Dynasty
-Gujarat: Ahmad Shah fs Mosque (1414), was the type of hypostyle hall that used co
lumns taken
from existing temples together with new ones.
It was constructed in a wooden-like post and beam structure without using arches
except for openings
facing the courtyard and the Mihrab, and its small domes are corbelled ones.
-Champaner:Jami Masjid (Friday Mosque, 1508)putting two slender Minarets standin
g in front of its facade at the height of 36m
and being surmounted by a true dome (the other domes are corbelled ones) above a
high three-story space in the center
-Jaunpur : mosques have spectacular Pishtaqs in front of their worship rooms, whic
h are slightly
tapering tower gates reminding us of Pylons in Egypt, and their openings are too
shallow. its main worship space with true domes
and barrel vaults is coexist with the Indian traditional post and beam system Eg
:Atala Masjid
-Mandu:mosques are all simple Arabian type, lacking even a minaret, and their hy
postyle worship rooms
and cloisters surrounding a courtyard are built continuously and homogeneously.
-Mughal:
---Babri mosque was a mixture of the local influence and the Western Asian style
and examples of this type of mosque are common in India
large imposing structure with three domes, one central and two secondary. It is
surrounded by two high walls,
running parallel to each other and enclosing a large central courtyard with a de
ep well
---Jama Masjid,Fatehpur Sikri: rectangular mosque comprises a central nave with
a single dome, two colonnaded halls on either side,
with two square chambers crowned with domes.
Carved mihrabs adorn the main chamber and the two smaller rooms
---Moti Masjid,Agra:courtyard of the Moti Masjid has side arcades and arched rec
essions and the main sanctuary facade beyond.
The sanctuary is roofed with three bulbous domes built of light white marble and
stand on the red sandstone walls.
There are a series of Hindu-style domed kiosks along the parapet.
---Jama Masjid,Delhi:Built during the reign of Shah Jahan
Rises on a high platform
Stone floored sahn is a large quadrangle with a pool at the centre surrounded by
open archades to the sides
prayer hall projects towards the courtyard
Red sandstone with profuse decoration in white and black marble
Multi-lobed central archway flanked on each side by five smaller arches which fo
rm the wings close at the extremities by two
elegant,fur storey minarets
3 fine bulbous domes in white marble with stripes of red sandstone sit on cylind
rical drums
Interior-great hall divided into bays and simple decoration in numerous niches i
n mihrab