Haibat Khan's Mosque
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| File:Haibat Khan's Mosque 1866 Ahmedabad.jpg
Haibat Khan's Mosque, photograph published in 1866
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| Location | Ahmedabad |
| Geographic coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Affiliation | Islam |
| State | Gujarat |
| Municipality | Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation |
| Status | Active |
| Architectural description | |
| Architectural type | Mosque |
| Architectural style | Indo-Islamic architecture |
| Founder | Haibat Khan |
| Designated as NHL | National Monument of Importance ASI Monument No. N-GJ-40 |
Haibat Khan's Mosque is a medieval mosque in Ahmedabad, India.
File:Pillars of Haibat Khan Mosque Ahmedabad 1866.jpg
Pillars of Haibat Khan Mosque
File:Porch Haibat Khan's Mosque Ahmedabad 1866.jpg
The porch of Haibat Khan's Mosque
The mosque is located to south-west of Dastur Khan's Mosque near Jamalpur gate. It was built by Haibat Khan, one of Ahmed Shah I's nobles, possibly on the site of a Hindu temple. Though of little beauty, this mosque is one of the earliest attempts to combine Islamic and Hindu elements of architecture. The front wall is plain, pierced by three small pointed arches; the minarets small and without ornament, rise from the roof; and, with a dwarfed and unlighted clerestory, the centre is barely raised above the side domes. Inside, in the centre, is a dome of with beautiful carvings, and pillars taken from different Hindu temples with variety of rich ornament.[1][2]
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