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Jama Mosque, Jaunpur
Summary
Jama Masjid or Jama Mosque or Jami Masjid or Badi Masjid, one of the largest Mosques in India, is a 15th-century mosque built by Hussain Shah Sharqi of the Jaunpur Sultanate in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the chief tourist attractions in Jaunpur. The mosque is 2.2 km north-northeast of Jaunpur, 7.3 km northwest of Zafarābād, 16.8 km north-northeast of Mariāhū, 26.3 km west-northwest of Kirākat. It is 1 km from the Atala mosque.
Special prayers are held every Friday. Regular prayers for five times are offered every day.
The mosque was built by the Sharqi dynasty of the Sunni Jaunpur Sultanate in the 15th century. The dynasty was established by the powerful eunuch Malik Sarwar (also known as Malik-as-Sharq, meaning "peer of the east") in Jaunpur after the decline in Tughlaq dynasty power, precipitated by both internal decline due to factors such as profligate spending by Firuz Tughlaq and by the sack of Delhi by Timur in 1398. Malik-as-Sharq seized control of Jaunpur, a city founded in 1360 by Firuz Shah near a Hindu town whose temples he desecrated, in 1394 and declared himself an independent Sultan in 1398 after the sack of Delhi. The Jaunpur Sultanate controlled territory in the Bihar and Uttar Pradesh regions of India and was a cultural center of Islam, known as Shiraz-e-Hind (the Shiraz of India), in India with its rulers being important patrons of the arts who created what is arguably distinctive style of architecture.
The foundation of the mosque was laid in 1438 by Ibrahim Shah but the first steps of construction above ground level only began in 1440 with his death. The purpose for its construction is unknown but two prevalent stories are that Ibrahim Shah constructed the mosque to save a hermit from having to walk barefoot to a far off mosque or that he created it to boost employment during a famine. The complex was built in stages but was finally completed in 1473 by the final Sharqi Monarch Hussain Shah.
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