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The '''Sidi Saiyyed Mosque''', popularly known as '''Sidi Saiyyid ni Jali''' locally, built in 1572-73 AD ([[Hijri year]] 980), is one of the most famous mosques of [[Ahmedabad]], a city in the state of [[Gujarat]], India.

== History ==
The Sidi Saiyyed Mosque, popularly known as Sidi Saiyyid ni Jali locally, built in 1572-73 AD (Hijri year 980), is one of the most famous mosques of Ahmedabad, a city in the state of Gujarat, India.
As attested by the marble tablet fixed on the wall of the mosque, it was built by Sidi Saiyyid in the retinue of Bilal Jhajar Khan, general in the army of the last [[Sultan]] Shams-ud-Din [[Muzaffar Shah III]] of the [[Gujarat Sultanate]].<ref name="Nawrath">Nawrath, E. A. (1956). ''Immortal India; 12 colour and 106 photographic reproductions of natural beauty spots, monuments of India's past glory, beautiful temples, magnificent tombs and mosques, scenic grandeur and picturesque cities, ancient and modern''. [[Bombay]], Taraporevala's Treasure House of Books.</ref><ref name="Commissariat1980">{{cite book|first=M. S. |last=Commissariat|title=History of Gujarat|url=https://archive.org/details/bk585|volume=I|year=1938|publisher=Longman, Greens & Co.|pages=502-505}}</ref>

The mosque was built in the last year of the existence of Gujarat Sultanate.<ref name="Nawrath"/>

== Architecture ==
[[File:Sidi Saiyyed Mosque - Marble Screen.jpg|thumb|The marble screen from inside.]]

The mosque is entirely [[arcuated]] and is known for its ten intricately carved stone [[latticework]] windows ([[jali]]s) on the side and rear arches. The rear wall is filled with square stone pierced panels in geometrical designs. The two bays flanking the central aisle have reticulated stone slabs carved in designs of intertwined trees and foliage and a palm motif. This intricately carved lattice stone window is the Sidi Saiyyed Jali, the unofficial symbol of city of Ahmedabad and the inspiration for the design of the logo of the [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad]].{{fact|date=October 2018}}

The central window arch of the mosque, where one would expect to see another intricate jali, is instead walled with stone.<ref name="symbol">{{cite news|last=Khan|first=KDL|url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/symbol-ahmedabad|title=The Symbol of Ahmedabad|date=4 June 2011|newspaper=[[Navhind Times]]|access-date=1 July 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610122355/http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/symbol-ahmedabad|archive-date=10 June 2012}}</ref> This is possibly because the mosque was not completed according to plan before the [[Akbar's conquest of Gujarat|Mughals invaded Gujarat]].<ref name="symbol" /><ref name="Commissariat1980" />

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Mosque of Sidi Sayed Jaali.JPG|The marble screen from the outside.
File:Sidi Saiyyed Ni Jali.JPG|Sidi Saiyyed Mosque
</gallery>

==References==
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{{Mosques in India}}

[[Category:Mosques in Ahmedabad]]
[[Category:1573 in India]]
[[Category:Religious buildings and structures completed in 1573]]
[[Category:Monuments of National Importance in Gujarat]]
[[Category:Indo-Islamic architecture]]
[[Category:Sunni mosques in India]]

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