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{{Distinguish|Lal Masjid, Islamabad}}
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'''Lal Masjid''' ({{lit}} "Red Mosque") of [[Delhi]], also known as the '''Fakr-ul Masjid''' ({{lit}} "Pride of Mosques") or '''Sikandar Sahib's Masjid''',<ref name="Smith">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PPjSCQAAQBAJ&q=Fakrul+Masjid&pg=PT103|title=Delhi: Unknown Tales of a City|last1=Smith|first1=R,V|publisher=Roli Books Private Limited|isbn=9789351941255|language=en|date=30 May 2015}}</ref> is a mosque located in Bara Bazaar, [[Kashmiri Gate (Delhi)|Kashmiri Gate]] in [[Old Delhi]], India.

== History ==
The building was built in 1728 by Kaniz-i-Fatima (entitled Fakr-i-Jahan), in memory of her husband Shujaat Khan, a noble in the court of Mughal emperor [[Aurangzeb]].<ref name="Peck">{{cite book|last1=Peck|first1=Lucy|last2=Heritage|first2=Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural|title=Delhi, a thousand years of building|publisher=The Lotus Collection|isbn=9788174363541|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t-1PAAAAMAAJ&q=Fakrul+Masjid|language=en|date=August 2005}}</ref> Colonel [[James Skinner (soldier)|James Skinner]] repaired the mosque and its construction is sometimes misattributed to him.<ref name="Smith" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cN7-8ZwviRgC&q=Fakhr+ul+Masajid&pg=PA46|title=The Delhi that No-one Knows|last=Smith|first=Ronald Vivian|date=2005|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=9788180280207|language=en}}</ref>

Illustrations and descriptions of the mosque were included in [[Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 4th Baronet|Sir Thomas Metcalfe's]] 1844 book [[Delhi Book|"Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi."]]

In the 1857 [[Siege of Delhi]] the mosque was damaged, yet since then, has been repaired.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Handbook for Visitors to Delhi and Its Neighborhood|last=Keene|first=Henry George|publisher=Thacker & Co|year=1906|location=Bombay|pages=25–26}}</ref>

== Architecture ==
The mosque sits on a raised plinth of about {{Convert|40|ft|m|order=flip}} by {{Convert|24|ft|m|order=flip}} and stands {{Convert|2.5|m|ft|order=}} above the adjacent shop-lined streets.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Archæology and Monumental Remains of Delhi|last=Stephen|first=Carr|publisher=Thacker Spink & Co|year=1876|location=Ludhiana|pages=270–271}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://archnet.org/institutions/INTACH/library/web/delhi/Page023.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706222942/http://archnet.org/institutions/INTACH/library/web/delhi/Page023.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-07-06|title=Lal Masjid (Fakrul Masjid)|date=2007-07-06|access-date=2018-09-30}}</ref> The main complex consists of three rooms each with its own arched entryway. Two striped towers on either side of the center arch are mirrored by the mosque's two [[minaret|minarets]] standing at the rear corners of building. Behind a decorated parapet on the roof of the mosque sit three white and black marble domes.<ref name=":0" /> The building's prominent use of red sandstone and white marble is considered unusual for the period, though many of its other features, including its minarets and domes, are closely modeled off of the major mosques of Delhi including the nearby [[Jama Masjid, Delhi|Jama Masjid]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=India before Europe|last=1946-|first=Asher, Catherine B. (Catherine Blanshard)|date=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|others=Talbot, Cynthia.|isbn=0521809045|location=New York|oclc=61303480}}</ref>

[[File:Fakhr ul Masjid and baoli at the shrine of Nizamuddin from Metcalfe's Delhi Book.jpg|thumb|Illustration of Lal Masjid (left) from Sir Thomas Metcalfe's [[Delhi Book]].]]

==References==
{{reflist}}<br />{{Mosques in India}}

[[Category:Mosques in Delhi]]
[[Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1729]]

Lal Masjid, Delhi - Revision history

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