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{{short description|Mosque in Hyderabad, Telangana, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox religious building
| name = Masjid-e-Raheem Khan
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| image =
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| caption = The mosque in [YYYY]
| location = [[Karwan]], [[Hyderabad]], [[Hyderabad district, India|Hyderabad District]], [[Telangana]]
| country = [[India]]
| religious_affiliation = [[Islam]]
| organisational_status = [[Mosque]]
| functional_status = Active
| coordinates = {{coord|17|22|29.29|N|78|26|30.42|E|region:IN-TE_type:landmark|format=dms|display=it}}
| map_type = India Hyderabad
| map_size = 250
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| map_caption = Location of the mosque in [[Hyderabad]]
| architecture_type = {{nowrap|[[Mosque architecture]]}}
| architecture_style = [[Qutb Shahi architecture|Qutb Shahi]]
| materials = [[Basalt]]
| minaret_quantity = Two
| inscriptions = [[Throne Verse|Ayat al-Kursi]]
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The '''Masjid-e-Raheem Khan''', also known as the '''Rahim Khan's Mosque''', is a [[mosque]], located in the [[Karwan]] area of [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], in the [[Hyderabad district, India|Hyderabad district]] of the state of [[Telangana]], India.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Nayeem, M. A. |author-link=M. A. Nayeem |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V48MAQAAMAAJ&q=rahim+khan%27s |title=The Heritage of the Qutb Shahis of Golconda and Hyderabad |date=2006 |publisher=Hyderabad Publishers |isbn=978-81-85492-23-0 |pages=172 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author=Khalidi, Omar |author-link=Omar Khalidi |url=https://archive.org/details/hyderabad-guide-2009/page/44/mode/2up |title=A Guide to Architecture in Hyderabad, Deccan, India |date=2009 |pages=44}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Bilgrami |first=Syed Ali Asgar |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.63136/page/n83/mode/2up |title=Landmarks Of The Deccan |date=1927 |pages=53–55}}</ref>

The mosque was completed in 1643 [[Common Era|CE]].

== Architecture ==
[[Haroon Khan Sherwani]] described the mosque as having practically all the peculiarities of [[Qutb Shahi architecture|Qutb Shahi]] mosques.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sherwani |first=Haroon Khan |author-link=Haroon Khan Sherwani |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aoYgAAAAMAAJ |title=History of the Qutb Shāhī Dynasty |date=1974 |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers |pages=546–547 |language=en}}</ref> The mosque has three arched entrances. It is flanked by two [[minarets]] on each side.<ref name=":0" /> In front of the courtyard is a terrace with some graves.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Yazdani, G. |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.90887/page/n77/mode/2up |title=Epigraphia Indo - Moslemica |date=1921}}</ref>

The prayer hall measures {{convert|27|by|18|ft|m|order=flip}}. The [[Throne Verse|Ayat al-Kursi]] is inscribed in the [[Thuluth]] script in black [[basalt]] on the semi-decagonal ''[[mihrab]]''.<ref name=":0" />

== See also ==
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* [[Islam in India]]
* [[List of mosques in Telangana]]

==References==
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{{Mosques in India}}
{{Qutb Shahi monuments}}

[[Category:17th-century mosques in India]]
[[Category:Mosque buildings with minarets in India]]
[[Category:Mosques completed in the 1640s]]
[[Category:Mosques in Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:Qutb Shahi architecture]]
[[Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1643]]

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