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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Mosque in Hyderabad, Telangana, India}}<br />
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{{Infobox religious building<br />
| name = Saidabad Mosque<br />
| native_name = <br />
| native_name_lang = <br />
| image = Saidabad_Mosque.png<br />
| image_upright = 1.4<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = The mosque in 1941<br />
| map_type = India Hyderabad<br />
| map_size = 250<br />
| map_alt = <br />
| map_relief = 1<br />
| map_caption = Location of the mosque in [[Hyderabad]]<br />
| coordinates =<br />
| location = [[Hyderabad]], [[Hyderabad district, India|Hyderabad District]], [[Telangana]]<br />
| religious_affiliation = [[Islam]]<br />
| organisational_status = [[Mosque]]<br />
| functional_status = Active<br />
| architecture_type = {{nowrap|[[Mosque architecture]]}}<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| established = {{AH|1014|link=yes}} <br />
| founded_by = [[Mir Mu'min Astarabadi]]<br />
| materials = [[Basalt]]<br />
}}<br />
The '''Saidabad Mosque''' is a [[mosque]] in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]], in the [[Hyderabad district, India|Hyderabad district]] of the state of [[Telangana]], India.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nayeem |first=M. A. |author-link=M. A. Nayeem |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V48MAQAAMAAJ&q=saidabad |title=The Heritage of the Qutb Shahis of Golconda and Hyderabad |date=2006 |publisher=Hyderabad Publishers |isbn=978-81-85492-23-0 |pages=205 |language=en}}</ref> The mosque was completed in the early part of the 17th century.<br />
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== History ==<br />
The mosque was commissioned by [[Mir Mu'min Astarabadi]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zore |first=Syed Mohiuddin Qadri |author-link=Mohiuddin Qadri Zore |url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/meer-mohammad-momin-hayat-aur-karname-syed-muhiuddin-qadri-zor-ebooks |title= |year=1941 |pages=65 |lang=ur |script-title=ur: میر محمّد مومن: حیات اور کارنامے |trans-title=Mir Muhammad Muʼmin: Life and Achievements}}</ref> Along with the mosque was a quadrangle with fifty-six rooms. It might have served as a [[caravanserai]], or as lodging for students and teachers of a [[madrasa]].<ref name=":0">{{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=316–317 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Architecture ==<br />
The prayer hall measures {{convert|30|by|21|ft|m|order=flip}}, and the [[façade]] contains three arched entrances.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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The [[mihrab]] is made out of black [[basalt]]. Over it is an inscription in the [[Thuluth]] script. {{AH|1014|link=yes}} is given in the inscription as the date of the mosque's erection. The [[Shia Islam|Shia]] [[Salawat|durood]] is carved on either side of the niche.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Syed Ali Asgar Bilgrami |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280768/page/n47/mode/2up |title=Landmarks Of The Deccan |date=1927 |pages=31–32}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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[[File:Inscriptions from the Saidabad Mosque.png|thumb|Inscriptions from the mosque]]<br />
* [[Islam in India]]<br />
* [[List of mosques in Telangana]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{Mosques in India}}<br />
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[[Category:17th-century mosques in India]]<br />
[[Category:Mosques completed in the 1600s]]<br />
[[Category:Mosques in Hyderabad, India]]<br />
[[Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1605]]<br />
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