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{{Infobox religious building<br />
| name = Khairatabad Mosque<br />
| native_name = <br />
| native_name_lang = <br />
| image = Khairtabad Mosque.jpg<br />
| image_upright = 1.4<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = The mosque in {{circa|1880s}},<br/>photographed by [[Lala Deen Dayal]]<br />
| religious_affiliation = [[Islam]]<br />
| organisational_status = [[Mosque]] and empty tomb<br />
| functional_status = Active<br />
| location = [[Khairatabad]], [[Hyderabad]], [[Hyderabad district, India|Hyderabad District]], [[Telangana]]<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| map_type = India Hyderabad<br />
| map_size = 250<br />
| map_alt = <br />
| map_relief = 1<br />
| map_caption = Location of the mosque in [[Hyderabad]]<br />
| architecture_type = {{nowrap|[[Mosque architecture]]}}<br />
| architecture_style = [[Qutb Shahi architecture|Qutb Shahi]]<br />
| groundbreaking = 1612 [[Common Era]]CE<br />
| year_completed = 1626 CE<br />
| founded_by = Khairunisa Begum<br />
| minaret_quantity = Two<br />
| dome_quantity = One {{small|(tomb only)}}<br />
| footnotes = <ref name=":0" /><br />
}}<br />
The '''Khairatabad Mosque''' is a [[mosque]] and adjacent [[tomb]], located in [[Khairatabad]], [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], in the [[Hyderabad district, India|Hyderabad district]] of the state of [[Telangana]], India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.63136 |title=Landmarks Of The Deccan |author=Bilgrami, Syed Ali Asgar |year=1927 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.63136/page/n87 57]-58}}</ref> The mosque was completed in the 17th century. In the late 20th century, the Khairatabad area became a major business and IT hub of Hyderabad.<ref name="AP Tourism">{{Cite web |url=http://www.aptourism.in/tourists-site/tourists_hyd.html |title=Andhra Pradesh Tourism |date= |access-date= |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305125646/http://www.aptourism.in/tourists-site/tourists_hyd.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
The Khairatabad Mosque was completed in 1626 [[Common Era|CE]] by Khairunisa Begum, also known as Ma Saheba, daughter of VI [[Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah]] (1612–1626 CE). She built the mosque for her tutor, Akhund Mulla Abul Malik. There is an empty domed tomb building, located adjacent to the mosque. The tomb building is devoid of any grave as it was built by Akhund for self-burial. However, as he died during his [[Haj]] pilgrimage to [[Mecca]], the domed tomb building has remained vacant.<ref name="AP Tourism"/> <br />
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Khairunisa Begum asked his son-in-law, [[Hussain Shah Wali]], to construct a palace, a mosque and a tank for the princess. The tank later became famous as [[Hussain Sagar]] built in the northern boundary of Khairtabad.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Architecture ==<br />
The Khairatabad Mosque was designed and constructed by Hussain Shah Wali. The mosque has a three-arch opening in front. The slender [[minaret]]s of the mosque have a large amount of decorative work and the [[Jali]] work is worth seeing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dome.mit.edu/handle/1721.3/32109 |title=Khairatabad Mosque |year=1612 |author= |publisher= }}</ref>{{clarify|date=March 2025|reason=publication date claims to by 1612.}}<br />
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INTACH AP, India{{who|date=March 2025}} declared the mosque as a heritage site.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://intach.ap.nic.in/heritagesites.htm |title=INTACH |access-date=2011-09-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006021909/http://intach.ap.nic.in/heritagesites.htm |archive-date= 6 October 2011 }}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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[[File:Tomb of Khairatbai.png|thumb|Khairatabad mosque and tomb]]<br />
* [[Islam in India]]<br />
* [[List of mosques in Telangana]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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