khair ul Manazil mosque – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com A blog exploring India's Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or its rich multi plural multi cultural heritage via its adab, tehzeeb & tareekh Wed, 15 Aug 2018 04:47:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://ranasafvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/image-7-75x75.jpg khair ul Manazil mosque – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com 32 32 179612229 The Imam at Khair ul Manazil mosque in Delhi https://ranasafvi.com/the-imam-at-khair-ul-manazil-mosque-in-delhi/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 04:42:18 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/?p=11085 Janab Bashir Ahmed Nizami has been leading prayers for 70 years in the Khairul Manazil mosque.

Says now he’s so weak that he falls down and at times forgets.

Does not have any govt support. The ASI hasn’t allowed him to electrify the mosque and he has to rely on oil lamps, which need Rs200/day. He doesn’t have the resources and is dependent on donations.

Said people from Afghanistan and Iran are very generous but he’s now past age of struggling.

He lives in the premises.

For more details read Forgotten Cities of Delhi

Khairul manazil or best of houses is a chronogram which gives the year of construction 969 AH or 1561-62 AD

it was built by Maham Anga, Akbar’s wet nurse

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