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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Mosque in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, India}}<br />
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| location = [[Chanderi]], [[Ashoknagar district]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
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| religious_affiliation = [[Sunni Islam]]<br />
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| status = [[congregational mosque|Friday mosque]]<br />
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The '''Jama Masjid''' is a [[congregational mosque|Friday mosque]] in [[Chanderi]], in the [[Ashoknagar district]] of the state of [[Madhya Pradesh]], India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |author=Brown, Percy |url=https://archive.org/details/IndianArchitecture/page/n117/mode/2up |title=Indian Architecture |date=1942 |pages=65}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Merklinger |first=Elizabeth Schotten |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5UXqAAAAMAAJ |title=Sultanate Architecture of Pre-Mughal India |date=2005 |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers |isbn=978-81-215-1088-2 |language=en}}</ref> The mosque was completed in {{AH|853|link=yes}}<ref name=Archnet/> and is a [[Monuments of National Importance (India)|Monument of National Importance]].{{cn|date=January 2025}}<br />
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== Description ==<br />
The mosque has three domes, one over each [[Bay (architecture)|bay]], completed in white marble. The prayer hall has eleven arched entrances, while the northern and southern arcades have nine each.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=Archnet>{{Cite web |title=Archnet > Site > Jami' Masjid of Chanderi |url=https://www.archnet.org/sites/8466 |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=www.archnet.org}}</ref><br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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Ornately carved doorway at Jami Mosque.jpg|Ornately carved doorway<br />
Juma Masjid, Chanderi.jpg|The mosque in 1850, by [[Frederick Charles Maisey]]<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Islam in India]]<br />
* [[List of mosques in India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{Cite book |last=Nath |first=Ram |author-link=Ram Nath |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YllXAAAAMAAJ |title=The Art of Chanderi: A Study of the 15th Century Monuments of Chanderi |publisher=Ambika Publications |year=1979 |chapter=The Jami Masjid (c. 1450 A.D.)}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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[[Category:Grand mosques|Chanderi]]<br />
[[Category:Monuments of National Importance in Madhya Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Mosque buildings with domes in India]]<br />
[[Category:Mosques completed in the 1450s]]<br />
[[Category:Mosques in Madhya Pradesh]]<br />
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