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Ahmadabad: Mahafez Khan's mosque and tomb [top], Mosque at Kochrab (across the Sabarmati) [right]
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Illustration of the mosque and tomb of Muhafiz
Khan at Ahmadabad, near Gujarat from James Burgess' 'Original
Drawings [of] Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmadabad.' This small
mosque was built in 1465 by Jamail-ud-Din Muhafiz Khan who was a
nobleman at the court of Sultan Mahmud Begada (r.1459-1511) and
appointed chief magistrate of Ahmadabad in 1471. The arrangement of
the minarets on the façade of the Muhafiz Khan mosque is similar
to the Isanpur mosque, as they were positioned at the extreme ends
of the building, a new architectural style in Ahmadabad in the
fifteenth century. Key decorative features include perforated
windows, carved marble rosettes in the back wall, and a carved
marble pulpit in the centre of the mosque.
Title: Ahmadabad: Mahafez Khan's mosque and tomb [top], Mosque at
Kochrab (across the Sabarmati) [right]
Description:
Illustration of the mosque and tomb of Muhafiz
Khan at Ahmadabad, near Gujarat from James Burgess' 'Original
Drawings [of] Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmadabad.
' This small
mosque was built in 1465 by Jamail-ud-Din Muhafiz Khan who was a
nobleman at the court of Sultan Mahmud Begada (r.
1459-1511) and
appointed chief magistrate of Ahmadabad in 1471.
The arrangement of
the minarets on the façade of the Muhafiz Khan mosque is similar
to the Isanpur mosque, as they were positioned at the extreme ends
of the building, a new architectural style in Ahmadabad in the
fifteenth century.
Key decorative features include perforated
windows, carved marble rosettes in the back wall, and a carved
marble pulpit in the centre of the mosque.
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