Jama masjid ,ahmedabad famous architecture in gujarat

1. JAMA MASJID
,AHMEDABAD

2.  Jama Masjid (literally Friday Mosque), also
known as Jami or Jumma Mosque, is the
most splendid mosque ofAhmedabad.
 Lying in the old walled city, the mosque is
situated outside Bhadra Fort area, along the
south side of the road extending from Teen
Darwaza to Manek Chowk
 The Jama Masjid of Ahmedabad was probably
the largest mosque in the Indian subcontinent
built in this period.

3.  Was built in 1424 during the reign of Ahmed
Shah I ,the founder of ahmedabad city.
 The reason for building this structure was
that when the Sultan arrived to offer his
prayer during the Jumma or Eid
 The mosque was originally intended only for
private use of the sultans.

4.  The mosque houses the entombment of Sultan Ahmed Shah,
Ahmed Shah 1, his son Mohammed Shah and his grandson Qutub-
Ud-Din Ahmed Shah II.
 . Nearby are the graves of the queens and the other wives of the
king known as Rani ka Hazira .
 The mosque shows distinctive Hindu and Jain influence on the
Sultanate period architecture.
 A number of the central domes were sculpted as lotus flowers and
these have a lot of similarities with archetypal domes of the Jain
shrines.
 . In addition, a number of the columns were sculpted with structures
like a bell dangling from a chain, similar to the bells that you
frequently find in Hindu shrines.
 Jama masjid was built using rescued item which was made
from demolished Hindu and Jain temples (carvings) .

5. STRUCTURE
 Built with yellow sandstone, the mosque
complex is centered on a large rectangular
courtyard 75 m long and 66 m wide.
ELEVATION

6.  It has three gateways on north, west and south
side (gates at the middle of each wall) .
 The courtyard is lined with a colonnade on
three sides, the prayer hall occupies the fourth
(east) side.
 . The wide open courtyard, floored with white
marble, is ringed by a colonnade painted with
giant Arabic calligraphy, and has a tank in the
center of the courtyard for ritual ablutions .

7. PLAN OF THE MOSQUE

8.  . While the two principal minarets flanking the main
arched entrance way collapsed in the 1819
earthquake, their lower portions still stand.
 The main prayer hall 210' X 95' has over 260
columns supporting the roof, with its 15 domes,
making a walk through the hall a beautiful maze of
light and shadows.
 Two smaller archways are placed on either side of
the central one.

9.  The central compartment of the nave rises up to 3
storeys, the side aisles are 2 storeys and the rest of
the hall is single storeyed.

10.  There are various engravings
that were inscribed on the
pillars of the mosque while the
construction of the mosque .
 ‘Jalis’ or perforated stone
curtains in the middle of the two
columns of the main central
gateways.
 The columns are symmetrically
arranged to form 15 bays
across the long axis of the hall .
 The boundary of the prayer hall
is known as “Qibla” and is richly
ornated .

11.
Prayer room inside

12. THANK YOU

13.  PRESENTED BY-
RASHI JAIN(2)
SHIVANI DAAD
SNEHA SHARMA
VARTIKA AGARWAL(39)
YASHIKA AGARWAL(45)
VIDHUSHI METHWANI