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Fig. 94: THE AKBARABADI MASJID, Mirza Shah Rukh Beg, 1847. This is a woodcut print from Syed Ahmed Khan's Asar al-Sanadid and the only representation before its destruction in 1858 of the Akbarabadi Masjid which stood on the west side of Sadatallah Chowk at the beginning of the Faiz Bazaar. It was onc of the large mosques erected in Shahjahanabad in 1650 by a queen of Shahjahan, in this case the Akbarabadi Begum. It follows the pattern of the Jama Masjid on a smaller scale but with seven bays instead of eleven. It had been severely damaged in some of the assaults on Delhi in the previous century and has lost its gateway and enclosing wall as well as half of its northern minaret. To the right is the Sonehri Masjid or Golden Mosque of Nawab Javed Khan (fig. 16). Woodcut print, 20 x 32 cm. British Library, London, 14109.c.1.

The Akbarabadi Masjid

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