Jama Masjid, Lucknow

Jama Masjid, Lucknow

Jama Masjid, Tehseenganj, Husainabad, Lucknow is a mosque located at Tahseenganj area of Lucknow. The construction of this mosque was started in the year 1839 A.D. by Mohammad Ali Shah.

Jama Masjid, Tehseenganj, Husainabad, Lucknow is a mosque located at Tahseenganj (previously known as Mustafabad) of Lucknow. The construction of this mosque was started in the year 1839 A.D. by His Majesty King Mohammad Ali Shah Bahadur (3rd King of Oudh) to surpass the Jama Masjid at Delhi in size. Still, after his death, the mosque was completed by his wife Queen Malika Jahan Sahiba in the year 1845 A.D. Built with "Lakhauri" bricks and plastered with lime, it is decorated with colored stucco motifs. It has a rectangular prayer hall on a lofty square terrace on the west with a magnificent facade of eleven arches. The central one is higher and provides an unusually high doorway that rises above the roof in a sharply pointed arch decorated in colored stucco. The prayer hall is surmounted by three pear-shaped high double domes decorated with an inverted lotus on the top. It is also flanked by two octagonal four-storeyed tapering minarets on either side, crowned by "Chhatries" on the top. An Imambara known as Imambara Malika Jahan is also situated at the south of this mosque.


Address:

SH 51, Gandhi Nagar, Dhanaura, Uttar Pradesh, India

Type:

Masjid

Country:

India

State:

Uttar Pradesh

District:

Lucknow

Year Built:

1839