Sidi Bashir Masjid
Ahmedabad, India

All that remains of the mosque known as Sidi Bashir Masjid is its grand entrance portal and minarets, which lend it the name Jhulta Minar (Shaking Minaret). The structure is located across from the Sarangpur gate to the east of the old walled city of Ahmedabad, near the present day train station.

Stylistically, the entrance portal relates to the Mosque of Miyan Khan Chishti, founded in 1465 CE. The portal itself takes the form of a large arched entryway. The minarets that flank it are engaged columns with octagonal shafts toward the bottom which transform to tapering cylinders toward the top. Three balconies supported by cornices divide the shaft into sections of differing lengths. The surfaces of the shafts are intricately ornamented, featuring friezes of vegetal forms in horizontal registers. 

Sources:

Burgess, James. The Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmadabad. Part II, 24. Archaeological Survey of Western India, Vol. 8. London: W. Griggs and Sons, 1905.

Location

Ahmedabad, India

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Associated Names

Events

late 15th-early 16th c./late 9th-early 10th c. AH

Dimensions

69.5 ft (height of minarets)

Additional Names

સિદી બશીર મસ્જિદ
Original
Sidi Bashir Mosque
Translation

Site Types

religious