this is a presentation about the famous dargahs in india. this presentation not only describes the significance of the famous dargahs it also has an itinerary planned if ever want to follow the circuit.
2. • Being the home of many Muslim sages and saints, India
features many shrines that have been visited by
people from all over the world. To explore the best
amongst them all, a special circuit called 'Dargah
circuit in India,' which will take you to the famous
shrines in Mumbai, Jaipur, Ajmer, Delhi.
3. SIGNIFICANT DARGAHS IN INDIA
Haji Ali (Mumbai)
Ajmer Sharif (Ajmer)
Tomb of Salim Chisti (Fatehpur Sikri)
Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah (Delhi)
Dargah Hazrat Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki (Delhi)
6. Prestigious Islamic symbol located on an islet off the coast
of Worli in the southern part of Mumbai.
Built by a wealthy Muslim merchant who became a saint named Pir
Haji Ali Shah Bukhari.
The saint died while on his trip to mecca, and his casket
miraculously came floating back to this place. In the saint’s
memory, the dargah was built in 1431.
The Haji Ali Dargah is built in Indo-Islamic architecture.
It is one of the most known landmark of Mumbai. The dargah has
around 8,000 visitors every week and not every visitor is a Muslim.
400 year old dargah.
8. A sufi shrine (Dargah) of sufi saint, Moinuddin Chishti located
at Ajmer Rajasthan. The shrine has the grave (Maqbara) of the
revered saint, Moinuddin Chisti.
Ajmer Sharif Dargah is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) away from the main
central Ajmer Railway station and situated at the foot of the
Taragarh hill.
Built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
Ajmer Sharif hosts the 6-day annual festival of Urs commemorating
the death anniversary of the sufi saint, Moinuddin Chishti. It is
believed that the saint locked himself in a room and prayed for six
days before leaving his mortal body when he was around 114 years
old. Many devotees flock here during this time of the year.
10. The shrine of Gharib Nawaz Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti is the oldest and
biggest Dargah in South Asia.
The Tomb of Sheikh Salim Chishti is famed as one of the finest
examples of Mughal architecture in India, built during the years 1580
and 1581.
It enshrines the burial place of the Sufi saint, Salim Chisti (1478 –
1572), a descendant of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer.
There is a legend that this shrine gave the great Akbar , a son. It is
said that this king had a no heir for a long time but once he walked to
the shrine of Salim Christi and prayed for a son. After that, he got his
son and the nation got its new king, Salim, later known as Jahangir.
Emperor Akbar was deeply influenced and moved by saint Salim
Chishti. His Dargah (tomb) is in the center of the mosque complex at
Fatehpur Sikri.
Millions of people still go to this shrine to make a prayer.
12. Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah is the Dargah of one of the world's most
famous Sufi saints, Hazrat Khwaja Syed Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 -
1325 CE)
Nizamuddin Auliya was a great sufi saint from chishti order. An order
with a mystic sufi tradition, which is based on love and humanity.
It is a place where everyone’s wishes are fulfilled, it is said and
believed that if you are going to visit Ajmer Sharif Dargah, before
that first visit to Nizamuddin Dargah.
Devotees offer prayers, shower rose petals and light incense sticks
before the shrines. The dargah can be visited any day but every
Thursday, special Qawwali programs are organized here and it is
decorated with beautiful lights.
On Sundays and Thursdays there is also langer (food) seva for all
devotees. Food is made purely vegetarian because of people visit
there from all religion.
14. The tomb of Qutb-ud-din Bakhtiyar Kaki in Mehrauli, is the oldest dargah
in Delhi.
He was the disciple of another famous sufi saint Hazrat Moinuddin
Chishti whose dargah in Ajmer attracts a huge following of believers.
The dargah complex is a large area dotted with graves. It was a belief
that the land around the shrine of a saint also becomes holy. The main
shrine of the ‘auliya’ is closed to women who can view it from outside
through marble latticework boundaries and tie a thread on it with every
wish.