Shahi Mosque, Aurangabad

The Shahi Mosque in Aurangabad, still called the Alamgiri Mosque into the 20th century, was built in 1693 by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb for his own use. It stands on the eastern flank of the Qila-e-Ark, the fortified palace complex that served as his Aurangabad residence, and is one of the few parts of it still standing.

The prayer hall has a triple-vaulted roof with curved bangla cornices and is crowned by three fluted domes, while three trefoil arches open across the façade. Its design follows the Moti Masjid in Delhi's Red Fort, another of Aurangzeb's private mosques, which in turn borrowed from mosques of Shah Jahan's reign in Agra and Lahore. The scholars Michell and Zebrowski called its architecture unusual beside Aurangabad's other Mughal mosques, such as the Chauk and Lal mosques.