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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Former mosque in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India}}<br />
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| location = Shah Alam area, [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]]<br />
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'''Malik Alam's Mosque''', also known as '''Peer Kamaal's Mosque''',<ref name="toi2011">{{cite news |title=PEARLS OF PAST: Need Some Elbow Room |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=25 November 2011 |url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Layout/Includes/pastissues2/ArtWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=pastissues2&BaseHref=TOIA%2F2011%2F11%2F25&ViewMode=HTML&PageLabel=2&EntityId=Ar00202&AppName=2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213193323/http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Layout/Includes/pastissues2/ArtWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=pastissues2&BaseHref=TOIA/2011/11/25&ViewMode=HTML&PageLabel=2&EntityId=Ar00202&AppName=2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 December 2014 |access-date=7 December 2014}}</ref> is a former [[mosque]], now in partial ruins, in the Shah Alam area of [[Ahmedabad]], in the state of [[Gujarat]], [[India]]. The structure is a [[Monuments of National Importance (India)|Monument of National Importance]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_alphalist_gujarat.asp|title=List of Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains of Gujarat |work=[[Archaeological Survey of India]] |date= |access-date=2016-11-18}}</ref><br />
[[File:Ahmedabhad. (12513229913).jpg|thumb|Mosque in 1855|left]]<br />
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== History ==<br />
Malik Alam's Mosque was built in 1422 by one of Sultan [[Ahmed Shah I]]'s sons-in-law, Malik Alam bin Kabir, styled Vazir-ul-Mamalik. <br />
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== Architecture ==<br />
Compared with the earlier buildings in the Ahmedabad, the mosque shows greater skill in fitting the niche and ornament of [[Hindu temple architecture|Hindu temple]] spires to the base of the [[Indo-Islamic architecture|Indo-Islamic]] [[minaret]].<ref name=gg>{{cite book |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EL4IAAAAQAAJ&q=dastur+khan+mosque&pg=PA284 |publisher=Government Central Press |pages=285–286 |year=1879}} {{PD-notice}}</ref><ref name="RaoBinani1954">{{cite book |author1=Rama Rao, T. V. |author2= Binani, G. D. |title=India at a glance: a comprehensive reference book on India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2b9NOnb8WigC |year=1954 |publisher=Orient Longmans |page=754}}</ref><br />
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Archaeologist [[James Burgess (archaeologist)|James Burgess]] wrote in 1900:<ref name=ais>{{cite book |author=Burgess, James |author-link=James Burgess (archaeologist) |title=Archaeological Survey of Western India |url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000002220u00026000.html |publisher=Government Central Press |year=1900 |volume=VII |archive-date=17 February 2020 |access-date=13 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217041227/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019wdz000002220u00026000.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
<blockquote>''It will be seen that [the mosque] has five domes and the roof is supported by 72 pillars (counting those in the open sections of the façade on each side) together with 44 pilasters. The interior dimensions are 112 feet 7 inches by 31 feet 8 inches, and the end and back walls are 3 feet 3 inches thick, that in front being 5 feet 11 inches...the central dome is considerably the higher, but there is in the façade only one large pointed arch in the middle, on each side of the minarets. In the back wall were five marble mihrabs, two in each end, facing the open colonnades, and the central one facing the great arch… The minarets above the level of the façade had been shaken when the upper portions were thrown down, and together with a small canopy on four pillars that stood between the turrets, they were taken down by the Public Works Department about 1882.''|''Archaeological Survey of Western India, VII'' by [[James Burgess (archaeologist)|James Burgess]]</blockquote><br />
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Both minarets were damaged in the [[1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake]]. The mosque is threatened by encroachment and illegal construction.<ref name="toi2011"/><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Islam in India]]<br />
* [[List of mosques in India]]<br />
* [[List of Monuments of National Importance in Gujarat]]<br />
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