Spiritual PlaceSharana Basaveshwara Temple, Kalaburagi
Kalaburagi shrine holding the samadhi of the Lingayat saint Sharanabasaveshwara, known for its annual car festival
Kalaburagi

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Ali Farhad Khan's Mosque, also called the Kali Masjid, is a mosque and dargah at Aland in Kalaburagi district, Karnataka, and a state protected monument. It was built in the Adil Shahi style under the Bijapur Sultanate by Ali Farhad Khan, brother of the general Afzal Khan; a Persian inscription over the central arch names him as builder but gives no date.
The stone mosque rises on a plinth about 2.3 metres high, entered by eleven steps through a portal on the north side, and faces a stone-paved courtyard with a large masonry well and the raised graves of the builder and his wife. Its facade has three arches beneath a chajja on carved brackets and a turreted parapet, flanked by two octagonal minarets about 9 metres high, each ringed with four bands and topped by an orb on carved lotus petals. Inside, the prayer hall has a grey stone floor and a mihrab of black stone with the basmala carved above it.
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Where it is
17.56° N 76.56° E