India is full of Jumma Masjids. So what is so special about the Jumma Masjid in Bangalore that we at AsiaRooms.com recommend you to visit this mosque in Bangalore? The specialty lies in the masjid’s archaic value. Located in one of the busiest market area of Bangalore, the Jumma Masjid in Bangalore is the oldest mosque in the city and is dedicated to the great Indian hero, Tipu Sultan.
About Jumma Masjid :
The oldest mosque of Bangalore, Jumma Masjid was earlier known as Sangian Jamia Masjid. Situated in the busy K.R. Market area, the mosque is renowned for its beautiful architecture. The prayer hall of the Jumma Masjid stands on an elevated ground and stands adorned with soaring, ornate granite pillars. It is believed that the mosque was built somewhere around 1790. The brick and mortar structure of the masjid has an impressive facade, embellished with elaborate jali-work and floral motifs. Read on to know more about the Jumma Masjid of Bangalore, India.
There are magnificent twin minarets inside the masjid that stretch upto the spherical domes above the balconies. These minarets have been ornamented with a graceful assembly of a large number of pigeonholes. A few years back, a delicate pattern, previously concealed under successive layers of white paint, was discovered inside the Jumma Masjid of Bangalore. The festive season sees the minars as well as the entire edifice of the masjid getting beautifully decorated with lights, adding to its beauty.
With large bulbous domes and beautiful pigeonholes the mosque stands silently on the busy street of K.R.Market, serving as a landmark that you will hardly fail to notice. The twin towers that stand high and the exquisitely ornamented pillars carved out of bright granite stones that decorate the elevated prayer hall of the mosque, is admired by many. While the pillars, built way back during the Mughal reign in India, by a Mughal named Killedar were always visible from the day they were built till now, the rare bubris painting on the ceilings and walls remained covered by layers of white paints for years. Fortunately enough a conscious effort to pull of those layers has revealed the existence of the beautiful bubris that bear a mark of none other than Tipu Sultan, the great.
Today Tipu’s Jumma Masjid is frequented by hundreds of Muslim devotees everyday who come from far and wide to offer their prayers. But it is during the annual festival of the Muslims and all other celebrations associated with Tipu Sultan, that the Jumma Masjid, Bangalore is thronged with Islamic devotees. During the death anniversary of Tipu, called the ‘Tipu Urs’, the muslims assemble infront of the mosque before making their way across the island to Gumbaz. Prayers are offered both at the main mosque and as well as in the mausoleum that resonates with Tipu’s mark till today.
The Jumma Masjid in Bangalore is a mosque that holds in itself a rich and serves the present, lending it an exclusivity that is worth seeing.
