Jama Masjid
Chandini chowk, New Delhi
Phone: 011 2336 5358
About
The Friday Mosque is the congregational mosque of Old Delhi Shahjahanabad, the seventh Islamic city built on the site of Delhi. The mosque was commissioned, like Shahjahanabad itself, by Shah Jahan r. 1628-1658, the fifth Mughal ruler of India. The construction of the monument began in 1650 and took six years, an estimated one million Indian rupees, and five thousand masons to complete. non-Muslims 8am-½hr before sunset, minaret 9am-5.30pm