purana qila – 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, 21 Aug 2019 12:35:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://ranasafvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/image-7-75x75.jpg purana qila – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com 32 32 179612229 Janab Bashir Ahmed of Khair ul Manazil masjid https://ranasafvi.com/janab-bashir-ahmed-of-khair-ul-manazil-masjid/ https://ranasafvi.com/janab-bashir-ahmed-of-khair-ul-manazil-masjid/#respond Thu, 15 Aug 2019 03:08:27 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/janab-bashir-ahmed-of-khair-ul-manazil-masjid/ 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

Janab Bashir Ahmed Nizami has been leading prayers for 70 years in the Khairul Manazil mosque. I met him in August 2014.

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.

 

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This was definitely a gateway at foot of Qila e Kuhna mosque in Purana Qila

]]> https://ranasafvi.com/purana-qila/feed/ 0 9125 Two Bhairon Temples near Purana Qila https://ranasafvi.com/two-bhairon-temples-near-purana-qila/ https://ranasafvi.com/two-bhairon-temples-near-purana-qila/#respond Sat, 05 May 2018 20:11:59 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/two-bhairon-temples-near-purana-qila/ I also visited the two Bhairon Temples near Purana Qila.

Both claim to be the original Pandav temples.

]]> https://ranasafvi.com/two-bhairon-temples-near-purana-qila/feed/ 0 9113 Old images ( paintings and photographs of Delhi’s Purana Qila https://ranasafvi.com/old-images-paintings-and-photographs-of-delhis-purana-qila/ https://ranasafvi.com/old-images-paintings-and-photographs-of-delhis-purana-qila/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:34:54 +0000 http://hazrat-e-dilli.com/?p=759 Purana Qila is one of the oldest Forts in India. The second Mughal emperor Humayun began the construction work in 1533 but it was completed after 5 years. His reign here was short lived as in 1940 Sher Shah defeated him and he fled to Persia.
Sher Shah reigned here for 5 years until his death in 1545 and built many important monuments here.The most beautiful being the Qila e Kuhna  Mosque.
Humayun regained the fort in 1555 but tragically fell to his death in 1556.
Some call this fort unlucky. But it’s gates and remains still stands in  magnificence.
Here are some paintings and photographs from various museums around the world. I have acknowledged the ones for which I found reference on the internet
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ALEXANDER SCOTT (CIRCA 1872-1932)
The western Gate of the Purana Qila, Delhi
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The Purana Qila area had been converted into a vast camp for Muslim refugees waiting to be transported to Pakistan.
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Humayun’s  Gate from Wikipedia
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Inside the Main Entrance of the Purana Qila, Delhi, 1823
By Robert Smith
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Pencil and ink drawing of the Purana Qila at Delhi by Sir James Abbott (1807-1896) in 1858.
Br Lib
@BLAsia_Africa
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A photo by Samuel Bourne, 1860’s, reissued by Bourne & Shepherd in the 1880’s
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Western entrance to Shere Shah’s fort, Delhi,” from the Illustrated London News, 1857
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Humayun Gate in Purana Qila
From archives
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From Metcalfe’s Dehlie  Book
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The Masjid Qila e Kuhna By Robert Smith in Yate Centre for Art

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