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Sidi Sayed Jhali
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| About Sidi Sayed Jhali
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The most famous mosque in Ahmedabad is Sidi Sayed Mosque, acclaimed for it's splendid Jhali screen, framed, in the ten semi-circular windows. It is a superb example of delicate carving that transforms atone into filigree.
The Mosque of Sidi Sayed, near Lal Darwaja is world famous for its exclusive stone tracery. The Jali screen windows are one of the best examples of Indo-Saracenic architecture. You get miniature models of this, which will remind you of the mesmerising experiences in Ahmedabad.
A part of the wall in the old citadel (Bhadra) of the mosque built by Ahmed Shah's slave, Sidi Sayyid, is celebrated all over the world for its exquisite stone window tracery - a superb example of delicate carving that transforms stone into filigree.
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| Exquisite Work
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A prominent feature on the front of glossy city brochures, Sidi Sayyid's Mosque, famed for the magnificent 'jali' screens lining its upper walls sits in the centre of a busy traffic circle in the northwest corner of Bhadra. The two semicircular screens high on the western wall are the most spectacular, with floral designs exquisitely carved out of the yellow stone so common in Ahmedabad's mosques.
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| Bhadra
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The solid fortified citadel, built of deep red stone in 1411 AD, Bhadra - Ahmedabad's first Muslim structure, is relatively plain in comparison to later mosques.
The palace with its huge arches, ornate balconies and jalis, is a part of the historic Bhadra fort founded by sultan Ahmed Shah.
It is believed Goddess Laxmi had appeared in this fort, and blessed Sultan Ahmed Shah, that the city would be always prosperous," and since then the people of Ahmedabad have been very rich and the city has been a major centre of trade and commerce.
In front of the citadel is a small public garden and Alif Shah's Mosque, gaily painted in green and white. Further east, beyond the odoriferous meat market in Khas Bazaar, is Teen Darwaja, a thickset triple gateway built during Ahmed Shah's reign that once led to the outer court of the royal citadel. A trio of pointed arches engraved with Islamic inscriptions and detailed carving spans the busy road below sheltering cobblers and peddlers.
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