Lal Masjid, Delhi
{{Short description|Mosque in Delhi, India}}
{{Distinguish|Lal Masjid, Islamabad}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}}
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| image = Lal Masjid Delhi.jpg
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| caption = The mosque, in 2009
| location = Old Delhi, North Delhi, Delhi NCT
| country = India
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| religious_affiliation = Islam
| status = Mosque
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| groundbreaking = 1728
| year_completed = 1729
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| materials = Red sandstone; white marble
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The Lal Masjid ({{lit}} "Red Mosque") of Delhi, also known as the Fakr-ul Masjid ({{lit}} "Pride of Mosques") or Sikandar Sahib's Masjid,{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PPjSCQAAQBAJ&q=Fakrul+Masjid&pg=PT103 |title=Delhi: Unknown Tales of a City |last1=Smith |first1=R. V. |author-link=Ronald Vivian Smith |publisher=Roli Books Private Limited |isbn=9789351941255 |language=en |date=30 May 2015 |page= }} is a mosque located in Bara Bazaar, near the Kashmiri Gate in Old Delhi, in the north of the city, in India.
History
The building was built in 1728 by Kaniz-i-Fatima (entitled Fakr-i-Jahan), in memory of her husband, Shujaat Khan, a noble in the court of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.{{cite book |last1=Peck |first1=Lucy |title=Delhi, a thousand years of building |publisher=The Lotus Collection |isbn=9788174363541 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-1PAAAAMAAJ&q=Fakrul+Masjid |language=en |date=August 2005}} Colonel James Skinner repaired the mosque and its construction is sometimes misattributed to him.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cN7-8ZwviRgC&q=Fakhr+ul+Masajid&pg=PA46 |title=The Delhi that No-one Knows |last=Smith |first=Ronald Vivian |author-link=Ronald Vivian Smith |date=2005 |publisher=Orient Blackswan |isbn=9788180280207 |language=en |page=46 }}
Illustrations and descriptions of the mosque were included in Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi, by Sir Thomas Metcalfe, published in 1844.
In the 1857 Siege of Delhi the mosque was damaged, and has since been repaired.{{Cite book |title=A Handbook for Visitors to Delhi and Its Neighborhood|last=Keene |first=Henry George |publisher=Thacker & Co |year=1906 |location=Bombay |pages=25–26}}
Architecture
The mosque sits on a raised plinth of approximately {{Convert|40|by|24|ft|m|order=flip}} and stands {{Convert|2.5|m|ft|order=}} above the adjacent shop-lined streets.{{Cite book |title=The Archæology and Monumental Remains of Delhi |author= Carr, Stephen |publisher=Thacker Spink & Co |year=1876 |location=Ludhiana |pages=270–271}}{{Cite web |url=http://archnet.org/institutions/INTACH/library/web/delhi/Page023.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706222942/http://archnet.org/institutions/INTACH/library/web/delhi/Page023.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-07-06 |title=Lal Masjid (Fakrul Masjid) |work=ArchNet.org |date=2007-07-06 |access-date=2018-09-30}} The main complex consists of three rooms each with its own arched entryway. Two striped towers on either side of the center arch are mirrored by the mosque's two minarets standing at the rear corners of building. Behind a decorated parapet on the roof of the mosque sit three white and black marble domes. The building's prominent use of red sandstone and white marble is considered unusual for the period, though many of its other features, including its minarets and domes, are closely modelled off of the major mosques of Delhi including the nearby Jama Masjid.{{Cite book |title=India before Europe |last=Asher |first=Catherine B. |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |last2=Talbot |first2=Cynthia |isbn=0521809045 |location=New York |oclc=61303480 |page= }}
See also
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File:Fakhr ul Masjid and baoli at the shrine of Nizamuddin from Metcalfe's Delhi Book.jpg]]
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