Jama Masjid, Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad's Jama Masjid stands on Gandhi Road in the old walled city, a short walk past Teen Darwaza. Sultan Ahmad Shah I inaugurated it in January 1424, as recorded on the central mihrab. It was the fifth mosque of his reign but far larger than the earlier, more modest ones, and was probably the biggest mosque built in the subcontinent at the time.

Visitors climb a staircase on the north side into a vast paved courtyard with an ablution tank at its centre, which can also be reached from two other directions. The prayer hall occupies the west side, and the whole building is a model of what became the Gujarat style. To the east is Badshah-ka-Hazira, the tomb of Ahmad Shah I with his son and grandson, which repeats the mosque's multiple domes, pillared courts and pierced stone screens.