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Delhi, the Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque)
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Samuel Bourne no. 1351. The interior of the Moti Masjid inside the Red Fort in Delhi. Built by Aurangzeb, this small mosque served as a private place of prayer for the royal family. The photograph provides a close view of a three-bayed structure in the mosque interior that contains the qibla wall. This structure dominates the composition, which rests upon a shallow foreground created by the courtyard of the structure. To the lower left a small basin is visible, to the right, a nearly perpendicular view of the enclosing wall. The reflection of light against the white marble of the structure produces a full range of tones and shadows throughout the surface and interior of the monument.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Catherine and Ralph Benkaim in honor of Thomas W. Lentz Jr.
Title: Delhi, the Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque)
Description:
Samuel Bourne no.
1351.
The interior of the Moti Masjid inside the Red Fort in Delhi.
Built by Aurangzeb, this small mosque served as a private place of prayer for the royal family.
The photograph provides a close view of a three-bayed structure in the mosque interior that contains the qibla wall.
This structure dominates the composition, which rests upon a shallow foreground created by the courtyard of the structure.
To the lower left a small basin is visible, to the right, a nearly perpendicular view of the enclosing wall.
The reflection of light against the white marble of the structure produces a full range of tones and shadows throughout the surface and interior of the monument.
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