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What is 'Dhai Din Ka Zhonpda'?

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Where it is located?

posted May 4, 2016 by Nway Nadar

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Mosque
Adhai-din-ka-jhonpra is an unforgettable structure masterpiece of Indo-Islamic architecture. Its construct complete in two and half days. The Masjid was originally a Sanskrit college but later on converted into a Masjid by Mohammad Ghori in 1198.

It is actually a Masjid built by Qutub-ud-Din-Aibak, first Sultan of Delhi, in AD 1199 contemporary to the other one built at Qutub-Minar complex of Delhi known as Quwal-ul-Islam mosque (power of Islam). Sultan Iltutmish had subsequently beautified it in AD 1213 with a screen pierced by corbelled engrailed arches which appears in this country for the first time. However, a large number of architectural members and sculptures of temples are lying inside the verandah of the complex for safety and security purposes by the department which shows the existence of a Hindu temple in its vicinity during circa 11th-12th Century AD. This mosque, built from the dismantled remains of temples, is known as Adhai-din-ka-Jhonpra possibly from the fact that a fair used to be held here for two and a half days.

answer May 5, 2016 by Manikandan J
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