Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta

Shah Jahan Mosque
Courtyard of the Shah Jahan Mosque
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
District	Thatta
Province	Sindh
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Mosque
Leadership	Shahjahan
Year consecrated	1644
Location
Location	Thatta, Pakistan
Architecture
Type	Mosque
Style	Islamic, Mughal
Completed	1647
Specifications
Dome(s)	100
Materials	Red bricks and tiles

The Shah Jahan Mosque is located in Thatta, Sindh province, Pakistan. It was built during the reign of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. He made it as a gift for the kind and warm hospitality of the people of Thatta. It is unique in this way that it contains no minarets but has a total of a staggering, 100 domes, the highest for any structure in Pakistan. Unlike other Mughal-era structures, it also does not contain pink sandstone. It was made using materials from areas of Sunday such as Hala (where the bricks were imported from).

History

The mosque was built in 1647, during the reign of Mughal King Shah Jahan, as a gift to the people of Sindh for their hospitality . It has been on the tentative UNESCO World Heritage list since 1993.

Architecture

The mosque was built with acoustics in mind: a person speaking on one end of the dome can be heard from the other end when the speech exceeds 100 decibels.

Images

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  View from the gardens
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  Elaborate blue tile work in the interior
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  Pillar relief corner

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See also

• Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking

External links

Media related to Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta at Wikimedia Commons

• Video of the Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta
• Oriental Architecture - Shah Jahan Mosque