Damri Masjid

The Damri Masjid, also spelt Damdi Masjid, is a former mosque in Ahmednagar, now partly ruined and protected by the Archaeological Survey of India as a monument of national importance. Sahir Khan, a noble of the Ahmednagar Sultanate, completed it in 1568. A popular but doubtful story says he collected a levy of one damri from every labourer building Ahmednagar Fort and used the money for the mosque; the historian Pushkar Sohoni argues the work is too refined to have been paid for by ordinary workmen.

Three pointed arches open into the prayer hall, whose interior is divided into six bays. Square pylons with chakra-like mouldings stand at the four corners, each rising into a slender minaret with ornamental galleries and an orb on top. A trefoil parapet runs along the roof, and at its centre two finials, crowned by small octagonal pavilions and domed pinnacles, are linked by a free-standing arch.