Kalan Masjid

{{Short description|Mosque in Delhi, India}}

{{for|similarly named mosques|Kali Masjid (disambiguation){{!}}Kali Masjid}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Use Indian English|date=January 2025}}

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| name = Kalan Mosque

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| image = The Seven Cities of Delhi - Kalan Masjid.jpg

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| caption = The mosque in 1906,
from The Seven Cities of Delhi

| religious_affiliation = Islam

| status = Mosque

| functional_status = Active

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| location = Old Delhi, Central Delhi, Delhi NCT

| country = India

| map_type = India Delhi central

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| map_caption = Location of the mosque in Central Delhi

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| year_completed = 1387

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The Kalan Masjid, or Kalan Mosque, is a 14th-century mosque in Old Delhi, India.{{Cite book |last=Stephen |first=Carr |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.107066 |title=The Archæology and Monumental Remains of Delhi |year=1862 |pages=149–154}}{{Cite web |title=Interior of the Kalan Masjid, in New Delhi's Nizamuddin district, India, 1965-2000 |url=https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/ic/id/10609/ |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=University of Washington Libraries |language=en}} It is one of the seven mosques built by Khan-i-Jahan Tilangani.{{Cite web |last=Safvi |first=Rana |date=2015-01-12 |title=Kalan Masjid, Turkman Gate, Delhi |url=https://ranasafvi.com/kalan-masjid-turkman-gate-delhi/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518203008/https://ranasafvi.com/kalan-masjid-turkman-gate-delhi/ |archive-date=2024-05-18 |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=Rana Safvi |language=en-US}}