Photographer: James BurkeSource: Life Magazine Hosted by Google
Aug 14, 2010
Rani Sipri's Mosk and Tomb - Ahmedabad 1872
Photograph of Rani Sipri's Mosque, Ahmedabad, from James Burgess' 'Photographs of Architecture and Scenery in Gujarat and Rajputana' taken by Colin Murray in c.1872. Rani Sipri's Mosque is situated in the old city of Ahmedabad and was built in 1514. It is also known as Masjid-e-Nagira or Jewel of a Mosque, because of its elegant proportions and slender minarets. It is a small structure with a row of paired columns to the front. This is a view from the north-east looking towards the mosque, with part of the tomb visible in the left foreground.
Window and base of minaret in Rani Spiri's Mosque, Ahmedabad - 1872
Rani Sipri's Mosque, Ahmedabad, from James Burgess' 'Photographs of Architecture and Scenery in Gujarat and Rajputana'. This Photograph was taken by Colin Murray in c.1872. Rani Sipri's Mosque is situated in the old city of Ahmedabad and was built in 1514. It is also known as Masjid-e-Nagira or Jewel of a Mosque, because of its elegant proportions and slender minarets. It is a small structure with a row of paired columns to the front. This photograph gives a close view of the base of the richly-carved south minaret with the balcony window on the south elevation visible in the background.
Queen's Mosque (Rani Masjid), Mirzapoor, Ahmedabad - 1880
Photographer: Charles LickfoldPhotograph of the mosque of Rani Rupmati at Ahmadabad in Gujarat.
The architecture of Ahmadabad reveals a fine synthesis of Hindu and Muslim elements, such as in the mausoleum complex of Rani Rupmati about whose life little is known. It is said that she may have been one of the chief queens of Ahmad Shah.
Source: British Library
Aug 7, 2010
Kootub Shah's Mosque, Ahmedabad - 1880
Source: British LibraryPhotographer: Charles Lickfold
Photograph of the mosque of Qutub Shah at Ahmadabad in Gujarat, taken by Charles Lickfold in the 1880s, part of the Bellew Collection of Architectural Views.
The architecture of Ahmadabad reveals a fine synthesis of Hindu and Muslim elements. Qutub Shah (ruled 1451-1459) was the fifth ruler of the Ahmad Shah Dynasty. Despite its name, this mosque was founded in the reign of his father Muhammad Shah.
Huttising's Jain Temple, Camp Road, Ahmedabad - 1880
Source: British LibraryPhotographer: Charles Lickfold
Photograph of the Jaina temple of Seth Hathisingh at Ahmadabad in Gujarat, taken by Charles Lickfold in the 1880s, part of the Bellew Collection of Architectural Views.
The city contains a mix of Islamic, Jaina and Hindu architecture as well as Indo-Islamic blending of elements. This Jaina temple was built in 1848 in a revivalist style of medieaval Gujarati architecture.
Dhera Khan's Tomb Ahmedabad - 1880
Source: British LibraryPhotographer: Charles Lickfold
This signed photograph was taken by Charles Lickfold in 1880s. The image shows the tomb of Darya Khan, which now lies in the northern suburbs of modern-day Ahmadabad. It was built in 1453 whilst the city was the capital of the thriving sultanate of Gujarat. The majority of tombs of the period in Gujarat are built using local post and lintel or trabeate methods of construction in yellow sandstone. This tomb differs in two ways: first, it is built using baked brick; and secondly, its architects chose to use true arches and domes according to arcuate methods to create a cavernous interior in which the cenotaph is housed with a surrounded arcaded verandah with five entrances on each of the four sides. The use of the arch and dome was imported to South Asia from Islamic lands to the west. It is likely that Darya Khan was himself an immigrant from Persia, where such methods of construction were more familiar, who required that his own tomb be built in a style in keeping with those of his homeland. He is also attributed with the construction of a mosque using similar arcuate methods.
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