jama masjid dehli|Created by Shah Jahan 1650, inda is largest mousqe in Delhi|jama masjid

जामा मस्जिद दिल्ली में स्थित एक मस्जिद है। इसका निर्माण सन् 1656 में हुआ था। यह मस्जिद लाल पत्थरों और संगमरमर का बना हुआ है। लाल किले से महज 500 मी. की दूरी पर जामा मस्जिद स्थित है जो भारत की सबसे बड़ी मस्जिद है। इस मस्जिद का निर्माण 1650 में शाहजहां ने शुरु करवाया था। इसे बनने में 6 वर्ष का समय और 10 लाख रु.लगे थे। 



It was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan between 1644 and 1656, and inaugurated by its first Imam, Syed Abdul Ghafoor Shah Bukhari. Situated in the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad (today Old Delhi), it served as the imperial mosque of the Mughal emperors until the demise of the empire in 1857. The Jama Masjid was regarded as a symbolic gesture of Islamic power across India, well into the colonial era. It was also a site of political significance during several key periods of British rule. It remains in active use, and is one of Delhi's most iconic sites, closely identified with the ethos of Old Delhi.

Names

The mosque has two names. The older one, bestowed by Shah Jahan, is Masjid-i-Jehān-Numā, interpreted as "mosque that reflects the whole world", probably an allusion to the Jām-e-Jehān Numā. The other more common one is Jāmā Masjid (Urdu: جامع مسجد, from the Arabic meaning "congregational mosque"), which emerged among the common populace.[2] The term 'Jama Masjid' is not unique to this mosque; since the 7th century, it has been used to denote the community mosque or Friday mosque, and hence many around the world bear this name and variants of it.[3]