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{{Infobox religious building<br />
|name = Mishkāl Mosque<br />
|native_name = Mishkāl Palli<br />
|image = Mishkal-mosque-Calicut.jpg<br />
|image_size = 265px<br />
|caption = View of Mishkāl Mosque from one of its entrances<br />
|map_type = Kerala<br />
|map_size = 250<br />
|map_caption = Location in present-day Kerala<br />
|coordinates = {{coord|11.25|75.77|display=inline,title}}<br />
|religious_affiliation = [[Islam]]<br />
|location = [[Kuttichira]], [[Calicut]], present-day [[India]]<br />
|established = 14th century <small>(present structure)</small><br />
|tradition = [[Islam]] ([[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] - [[Shafi'i|Šāfiʿī]])<br />
|architecture_type = mosque<br />
|architecture_style = Regional ([[Kerala]])<br />
|dome_quantity = 0<br />
|minaret_quantity = 0<br />
|website = <br />
}}<br />
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'''Mishkal Mosque''' ([[Malayalam]]: മിശ്കാൽ പള്ളി, also spelled '''Mithqal Mosque'''<ref name=":0">Prange, Sebastian. <nowiki>''</nowiki>Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast". Cambridge University Press, 2018. 78-81. 135-36.</ref>) is a medieval [[mosque]] located in [[Calicut]] on Malabar Coast, southern India. The mosque, one of the few surviving medieval mosques in Kerala, is regarded as an important cultural, historical and architectural monument of [[Kerala]]. <br />
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The mosque was built by the eponymous Muslim merchant-shipowner (nakhuda) in the 14th century.<ref name="keralatours4u">{{cite web|url=http://keralatours4u.com/kerala-districts/kozhikode/244--mishkal-mosque-at-kuttichira-.html|title=Mishkal Mosque at Kuttichira|accessdate=2009-11-03|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426235311/http://www.keralatours4u.com/kerala-districts/kozhikode/244--mishkal-mosque-at-kuttichira-.html|archivedate=2009-04-26}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Mishkal - active in Calicut in the 1340s - possessed "great wealth" and a fleet of ships for "the trade with India, China, Yemen, and Persia".<ref name=":1">Prange, Sebastian. <nowiki>''</nowiki>Monsoon Islam: Trade and Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast". Cambridge University Press, 2018. 78- 81.</ref> Ship-owners known as the nakhudas were among the wealthiest merchants of medieval Indian Ocean world.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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Mishkal Mosque is located in Kuttichira neighbourhood, a part of [[Thekkepuram]] beach in Calicut.<br />
[[File:BKB5895.jpg|thumb|Another view of the mosque]]<br />
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In January 1510,the mosque was partially burned in a [[Portuguese India|Portuguese]] attack on Calicut by [[Afonso de Albuquerque|Albuquerque]] which also occupied the [[Zamorin|Zamorin's]] palace.The attack was later repulsed by the Zamorin's [[Nair]] troups with 300 to 500 Portuguese killed and the remaining barely even surviving.<ref>{{Citation|work=Islamic Society in the South Asian Frontier|editor-last1=Dale|editor-first1=Stephen Frederick|title=Portuguese attack on Calicut|url=https://archive.org/details/islamicsocietyon0000dale/page/42/mode/1up}}</ref> The top floors of the mosque still display some of that damage.<ref name="keralatours4u" /><ref name="asiarooms">{{cite web|url=http://www.asiarooms.com/travel-guide/india/kerala/tourist-attractions-in-kerala/mishkal-mosque.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929181911/http://www.asiarooms.com/travel-guide/india/kerala/tourist-attractions-in-kerala/mishkal-mosque.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=29 September 2008|title=Mishkal Mosque|accessdate=2009-11-03}}</ref> Mishkal Mosque originally had five stories. It was rebuilt in 1578/79<ref name=":0" /> after the 1510 arson and now has four stories.<ref name="keralatours4u" /> Typical for similar medieval mosques in Kerala, it has no [[cupola]]s and [[minaret]]s and heavily employs [[timber]].<br />
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[[File:Misqal Mosque.jpg|thumb|right|Misqal Mosque]]<br />
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A large tank known as the Kuttichira tank is attached to the mosque. The mosque has 47 doors, 24 carved pillars and a big prayer hall that can accommodate around 400 people. The prayer hall is well ventilated and there is a wooden member with beautiful motifs.<br />
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* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Ovxq8enmRKUC&source=gbs_navlinks_s ''Muslim Architecture of South India'' (Mehrdad Shokoohy) Routledge, 2011]<br />
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