Mosque
Jama Masjid
3MV6+WV9, Dadupura, Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh 283110
Friday mosque where a saint's blessing secured a dynasty's heir, enclosing a luminous marble tomb.
This guide to the Jama Masjid in Agra opens in the 1560s with Emperor Akbar, ruler of a mighty empire yet without a son, seeking the blessing of a Sufi mystic named Sheikh Salim Chishti who lived in a cave on this ridge. It follows how that encounter reshaped Akbar's dynasty and led him to move his entire capital here, raising this mosque as the first building on the site. The mosque's courtyard stretches more than five hundred feet end to end, large enough to hold an entire city's prayers.
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