Taj-ul-Masjid

Taj-ul-Masjid, named as the ‘The Crown of Mosques’, is an old mosque that was also used as a madrasah. Sultan Shah Jehan Begum of Bhopal (1868-1901) started the construction of this mosque. However, it was completely built only after 1971 by the great efforts of Allama Mohammad Imran Khan Nadwi Azhari of Bhopal.

Designing of the mosque features a pink façade, on top of which stand the two 18-storey octagonal minarets with marble domes. Below the three huge bulbous domes of the mosque lies a main hallway with beautiful pillars and marble flooring. Further, the mosque encompasses a courtyard with a large tank in the centre.

The double storey gateway in the courtyard, posing four recessed archways and nine cusped multifold openings, leads to the main prayer hall. Quibla wall inside the prayer hall is adorned with eleven recessed arch carvings and fine screens of trellis work. The pillars hold 27 ceilings, 16 of which have ornate petalled designs.