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{{Short description|Former mosque in Udaypur, Madhya Pradesh, India}}
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{{about|the former mosque and palace in Madhya Pradesh|the mosque in Hyderabad|Shahi Masjid}}
{{distinguish|City Palace, Udaipur}}
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| caption = Partial ruins of the mosque interior, in 2020, with cusped arch niches, typical of [[Mughal architecture]]
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| location = [[Udaypur, Madhya Pradesh|Udaypur]], [[Vidisha district]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]
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The '''Shahi Mahal and Mosque''', also known locally as '''Shāhī Maḥal''' and '''Shāhī Masjid''' or '''Qāḍiyon-kī-Masjid''', is a large [[Mahal (palace)|palace]] and former [[mosque]] complex, in partial ruins, located in the village of [[Udaypur, Madhya Pradesh|Udaypur]], in the [[Vidisha district]], in the state of [[Madhya Pradesh]], India. Built between {{AH|1026|link=yes}} and {{AH|1041}}, the edifice is a short distance to the east of the [[Nīlakaṇṭheśvara temple]].

== Architecture ==
The Shāhī Maḥal served as the residence of the local governor during the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] rule.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Garde |first=M. B. |title=Archaeology in Gwalior |publisher=Alijah Darbar Press |year=1934 |edition=2nd |location=Gwalior |pages=139–140}}</ref> Built on a rectangular plan, the ''maḥal'' has four corner towers and a two-storey elevation, with a suite of rooms disposed around two interlinked courtyards, all decorated in the simple and elegant stonecarving style of the 17th century. The existing ruins retain traces of excellent stone ''[[jali|jālī]]'' work.

Forming an adjunct of the ''maḥal'' is a big mosque, an imposing edifice locally known as Shāhī Masjid or Qāḍiyon-kī-Masjid.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Saksena |first=Ramsingh |date=1927 |title=Persian Inscriptions in the Gwalior State |journal=Indian Historical Quarterly |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=715–718}}</ref> A Persian inscription carved on a slab measuring {{convert|65|by|42|cm}}, affixed on the central mihrab of the mosque, records its foundation by [[qadi|Qāḍi]] Awliyā b. Sayyid ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Ḥasanī on 4 Rajab 1026 Hijrī, or 28 June 1617 CE, at the time when Emperor [[Jahāngīr]] was on a visit to [[Mandu, Madhya Pradesh|Mandu]].<ref name=":1" /> A second Persian inscription carved on a slab measuring {{convert|4|ft|1|in|m|order=flip}} by {{convert|1|in|cm|order=flip}}, in a balcony projecting from the north wall of the mosque records that the mosque was only half complete when both king and qāḍi died, and that it was finally completed by Sayyid Ḥāmid and Sayyid Dāʾūd, sons of Qāḍi Awliyā, on 10 Dhū'l-Ḥijja 1041 Hijrī, or 18 June 1632 CE, during the reign of Emperor [[Shah Jahan|Shāhjahān]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Rahim |first=S.A. |date=1969 |title=Inscriptions of Akbar and Jahangir from Madhya Pradesh |journal=Epigraphia Indica: Arabic and Persian Supplement 1968 |pages=63–65}}</ref> Both inscriptions show that this mosque served as the main [[Jama Masjid]] of Udaypur in the Mughal period and was the seat of the town's state-appointed ''qāḍi''. The epigraphs are also significant for the political geography of the times, showing that ''[[qasba]]'' Udaypur was then part of ''[[Sarkar (administrative division)|sarkar]]'' Chanderi and [[Malwa Subah|''subah'' Malwa]], on the border of [[Gondwana (India)|Gondwana]].<ref name=":2" />

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

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Mosques in India}}

[[Category:17th-century mosques in India]]
[[Category:Mosques completed in the 1630s]]
[[Category:Mosques in Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Mughal mosques]]
[[Category:Mughal palaces]]
[[Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1632]]
[[Category:Mosque ruins in India]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Vidisha district]]

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