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Badshahi MosqueThe sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb chose Lahore as the site for a new mosque, yet he was not a major patron of art and architecture like his predecessors.
Jama Masjid, DelhiThe first word of this story is Jama Masjid, a name that translates to 'congregational mosque' but was originally bestowed by Emperor Shah Jahan as…
Shah Jahan Mosque, ThattaIn 1644, a Mughal emperor who would later build the Taj Mahal ordered the construction of a mosque in a city he had once fled, not as a display of imperial…