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Photo: Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim via Wikimedia Commons (GFDL 1.2)Shah Jahan's mosque took six years to build, and its courtyard can hold 25,000 worshippers.
India's largest mosque, commissioned by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and completed in 1656 after six years of construction. Its courtyard can hold up to 25,000 worshippers, and its three great gates, four towers and two 40-metre minarets dominate the Old Delhi skyline. Relics attributed to the Prophet Muhammad are preserved inside. Climbing the southern minaret offers one of the best panoramic views over the walled city.
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Built without a single piece of steel, from pink sandstone and Italian marble, by the hands of over 7,000 artisans.
No idols, no sermons, no rituals, only silence, open to people of every faith beneath 27 marble petals.