Jama Mosque

Highlights

• The Jama Mosque, also known as the Jama Masjid, is a Shi'ite Friday mosque located in the area of Husainabad, Lucknow, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
• The construction of the mosque started in 1839 CE by Muhammad Ali Shah, third Badshah of Awadh with the intention to surpass the Jama Masjid in Delhi in size.
• It was incomplete at the time of his death, and the mosque was completed by his wife, Queen Malika Jahan Sahiba, in 1845 CE, although not all planned elements were completed.
• The mosque is a Monuments of National Importance, administered by the Archaeological Survey of India.

Dress Code

Modest, respectful clothing is expected at this site.

Architecture

• •Built with "Lakhauri" bricks and plastered with lime, it is decorated with coloured stucco motifs.
• •Standing on a square lofty terrace, it has a rectangular prayer hall, on the west with a magnificent façade of eleven arches.
• •The central one is higher and provided with an unusually high doorway which rises above the roof in a sharply pointed arch decorated in coloured stucco.
• •The prayer hall is surmounted by three pear-shaped high double domes decorated with an inverted lotus on the top and is also flanked by two octagonal four-storeyed tapering minarets on either side, crowned by "Chhatries" on the top.

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