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Mosques completed in the 1650s
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…
Taj MahalOn the 17th of June 1631, the Mughal Empire lost its most cherished empress when Mumtaz Mahal died giving birth to their fourteenth child, Gauhara Begum.