Ibrahim Saiyed Shahid Masjid

Ibrahim Saiyed Shahid Masjid

Ibrahim Saiyed Shahid Masjid located at Geeta Mandir (S.T.depot.), Ahmedabad

Ibrahim Saiyed Shahid Masjid is trabeate style masjid. The mosque in size is plan and detail , is an almost exact copy of shah khub masjid. It is must delipaidated but repairable .Tje minar are solid and 32 feet high in three storeys and almost perfect.The panel and niches ate beautifully carved foliage The open facade has six pillars ,nearly equal spaced and inside or other two rows of the same number the total length being 63 feet inside by 31 feet deep and the roof is covered by three rows of seven domes each. One of the beams in the roof having cracked ,two support of bricks and mortar have been inserted . There are three qiblas in back wall of sandstone - which perhaps account for their still being left , though the inscription slab in the tympanum of the central mihrab has long since been removed.In the back wall were four windows one of them behind the minar -but the lattice work has been disappeared.In th end walls are carved balcony windows supported on brackets. The roza is plain , the dome resting on tweleve pillars , but the pavement has been dug up and tomb has been totaly removed .To the north east of the masjid in the area where the faqir lives who claims to be owner of the masjid stands , a brick tomb on a platform well cared for under which Ibrahim Saiyed Shahid is said to have been buried.


Address:

Gita Mandir, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380043, India

Type:

Masjid

Country:

India

State:

Gujarat

District:

Ahmedabad

Year Built:

Sixteen century

Own By:

Ibrahim Saiyed Shahid