Qadam Rasul Mosque, Gaur

The Qadam Rasul Mosque stands in the old city of Gaur and was built in 1530–31 under Sultan Nusrat Shah, successor to Alauddin Husain Shah. It was raised to shelter a stone tablet revered as carrying the footprint of the Prophet Muhammad. Local tradition holds that the relic was first kept at Pandua, in the khanqah of Jalaluddin Tabrizi, a 13th-century saint, and was brought to Gaur by Husain Shah.

The rectangular brick mosque has a single dome and vaulted verandahs on three sides, all opening into a square central room where the relic is kept. The east front carries the richest decoration, with three arched entrances on octagonal piers and rows of panels with cusped arches and hanging-bell motifs. Set in a garden and looked after by the Archaeological Survey of India, the compound also holds the later tomb of Fateh Khan, a general of Aurangzeb, built of stucco over brick with a do-chala roof.