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Dargah Sheikh Musa, Palla

Chishti shrine of a 14th-century saint in Palla, Nuh, known for its two shaking minarets

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01 — The story

The story

Dargah Sheikh Musa is a Chishti Sufi shrine in Palla village, Nuh district, below the Aravallis and about 50 km from Delhi. It holds the tomb of Sheikh Musa, a grandson of Baba Farid and disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya, who came from Delhi and, at Nizamuddin's bidding, brought Islam to the Meo community of Mewat. Legend says a thorn bush caught his shawl at this spot and he stayed. He died in 733 AH (1332–33 CE). The fortified complex of 24 kanals includes a mosque, his living quarters, a madrasa and a grand gateway, and has been a state protected monument since 2017.

The architecture mixes Mughal minarets with a Rajput-style chhatri, and the minarets, arches and gates date from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Best known are the two shaking minarets: push one and it sways, felt by someone in the other. Water from the shrine is believed to remove moles, and the annual Urs, halted in 1957, was revived in 2023.

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02 — About

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Where it is

Nuh, Haryana

28.11° N 76.98° E