Begumpur Masjid
Fourteenth-century mosque of sixty-four domes built by a Tughlaq prime minister as one of seven.
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This guide to Begumpur Masjid in Delhi follows Khan-i-Jahan Juna Shah, the fourteenth-century prime minister under Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq, who built seven mosques to secure his place in heaven and whose own father had converted from a Hindu commander at Warangal into the sultanate's service. It traces the scale of this one, nearly a hundred metres in each direction and ringed by sixty-four domes, against the court intrigues that eventually caught up with him. Stand beneath the central gateway and take in the arcades that once sheltered families fleeing Nadir Shah's invasion.
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