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Legend
The structure
Places around
| | Legend | | Beyond the Dargah, among narrow and crowded lanes, is this remarkable, early Islamic structure. Mohammed Ghori hurriedly put together a mosque within two and a half days, using the remains of several neighbouring temples. Pillars, from at least thirty temples, must have gone into the making of this elegant monument.
According to another legend, the structure is named after a festival, which carried on for two and a half days.
| | | The structure | | The archways are finely engraved with Kufi and Jughra inscriptions from the Holy Koran. The mosque has 10 domes supported by 124 pillars. These pillars depict Hindu and Jain architecture. | | | Places around | | Taragarh: About 3 kms. away from the Adai-din-ka-jhonpra is Taragarh Fort meaning 'star fort'. This fort offers a very good view of the city; it is rectangular and has a 5 metre thick wall. On the way to the fort is a graveyard wherein lie the bodies of Muslim martyrs who died for the fort. The British later used the fort as a sanatorium.
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