Shahi Jama Masjid Agra

This guide to the Shahi Jama Masjid in Agra centers on Jahanara, eldest daughter of Shah Jahan, who commissioned and funded this mosque from her own allowance between 1643 and 1648, and who would later choose to join her father in captivity inside Agra Fort rather than leave him. It follows her life as a devoted Sufi mystic and author of spiritual texts, and the 1644 accident that nearly killed her during the mosque's construction. Look up at the herringbone-striped domes and the Persian inscriptions praising her father's rule set into the central arch.