Palam Mosque
Palam Mosque is a small brick mosque to be found in the south east
corner of the Palam Village in South West Delhi District, near Dwarka.
It is the merely existing building of Babur's reign in Delhi as
well as one of the a small number of his era in India.
The mosque was built by Ghazanfar (1528- 1529) an bureaucrat in
Babur's court. Palam Mosque has been visited by Ibn Batuta and is
well-known for its Sanskrit inscriptions. It has minute vaulted
minarets on the four corners of its roof.
Palam is an old village in the outskirts of the Indian capital.
Awaiting freshly Delhi airport used to be alive called “Palam
Airport. Here in Palam Vihar, a novel settlement urbanized by Ansals,
there is an old mosque in the laldora region of Chowma village which
was abandoned after 1947 as local Muslims migrated to Pakistan.
This mosque was engaged by novel settlers who rehabilitated into
an animal shed. In early 1990s at what time the novel colony was
pending up, some Muslims, in arrange to contain a leave for worship,
moved the Auqaf establishment and convinced the occupiers to leave
the mosque.
Separately from this the local Sarpanch has stopped up the burial
of dead in the local cemetery for reasons not known. This cemetery
has been in make use of for decades.
It possibly will any day turn out to be a law and order difficulty
when hundreds of people gather for people attending adoration at
the mosque and see the doorway blocked. In order to stay away from
such probable friction, the district establishment requires to act
rapidly and earnestly to alleviate the hurt feelings of the Muslim
community.
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