Muchundi Mosque

The Muchundi Mosque, or Muccunti Palli, stands in Kuttichira, the medieval Muslim quarter of Kozhikode, south of the Mishkal Mosque and the Kuttichira tank. It is thought to rest on the foundations of one of the oldest mosques in the city. Built in the Kerala-Islamic manner, it has no minarets, domes or arches, and its ceiling carries Quranic calligraphy framed by carved flowers. Friday congregational prayers are not held here.

The mosque is best known for a worn granite slab of about the 13th century, written partly in Old Malayalam in Vattezhuthu script and partly in Arabic, with the letters raised rather than cut in, as in Islamic inscriptions. It records an order granting a daily allowance of rice and land revenues to the mosque and says that Shahab al-din Raihan bought the land and built the mosque. It is the only surviving record of a Hindu king's endowment to Kerala's Muslims, and the Zamorins remained the mosque's protectors through medieval times.