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The Haji Ali Dargah is a mosque and dargah or the monument of Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari located on an islet off the coast of Worli in the southern Mumbai. An exquisite example of Indo-Islamic Architecture , associated with legends about doomed lovers, the dargah contains the tomb of Haji Ali Shah Bukhari .
This region, especially the islands that would make up Mumbai, were constantly being fought over by the Gujarat and Bahamani sultans until the Portuguese arrival. The sultans constructed numerous mosques and dargahs on the various islands, the most famous being the Haji Ali Dargah. In 1535, the Gujarat sultanate signed a treaty ceding all of ...
Haji Ali Dargah: Mumbai, Maharashtra: 1431 CE: Sufism: Mosque and Dargah or the monument of Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari, Sufi saint and merchant from Uzbekistan; Hayat Bakshi Mosque: Hyderabad, Telangana: 1672 CE: Shia: Built by Abdullah Qutb Shah, the 7th Sultan of Golconda and ruler of Qutb Shahi dynasty, a Persianate Shia Islamic dynasty
The Haji Ali Dargah in Bombay, built in 1431, by a Muslim saint named Haji Ali, when Mumbai was under Islamic rule. From 1348 to 1391, the islands were under the Muzaffarid dynasty. In 1391, shortly after the establishment of the Gujarat Sultanate , Muzaffar Shah I was appointed viceroy of north Konkan . [ 1 ]
Peer Syed Haji Ali Shah Bukhari was a wealthy merchant. Haji Ali Shah came from Samarqand with Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani. He was a disciple of Ali Hamadani, At some point during the Delhi Sultanate rule over the island of Worli, Peer Sayyed Haji Ali came to settle there. Many legends point out that during his journey to Mecca, he fell ill and ...
The interior of the prayer hall does not bear much decoration; Asher notes that the use of undecorated marble is typical of Shah Jahan's private religious architecture. [2] [4] [1] The Moti Masjid displays much influence from an earlier marble congregational mosque, constructed by Shah Jahan at the Ajmer Sharif Dargah. [2] [4]
The Shahi Mosque, also known as the Alamgiri Mosque, is located in Aurangabad, a city in Maharashtra, India.It was built in 1693 by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb for his private use.
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