| Ajmer and the dargah of Hazrat Mu'in ud-Din Chishti "Gharib nawaz" (c.1190) | |
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Section 6, top margin B, left margin b |
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Just five miles from Ajmer is another popular pilgrimage destination: PUSHKAR, with its famous lake and its Brahma temple |
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Beside Ajmer's Ana Sagar lake, Shah Jahan built a garden with a graceful marble pavilion, the "Daulat Bagh" |
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AJMER has its own handsome architectural traditions |
| *ADHAI DIN KA JHOMPRA* |
Also
in Ajmer: the Ghurid mosque (c.1198) made from parts of a Jain temple
complex (c.1153), called
"Adhai din ka jhompra" (The hut of 2 1/2 days) |
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The main gateway of the dargah of Hazrat Mu'in ud-Din Chishti (c.1138-1236), who was commonly called "Gharib navaz" (Protector of the poor) |
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Other approaches to the dargah |
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The courtyard can hold crowds, and qawwali performances |
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Inside the dargah |
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The tomb itself is located in an inner chamber |
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Hazrat Mu'in ud-Din depicted with other Sufi shaikhs, including his friend and disciple Qutb ud-Din Bakhtyar Kaki of Delhi, in a miniature painting labeled in both Urdu and Devanagari scripts |
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Akbar visited the dargah devotedly for some years (1565-), always entering on foot; he added his own very simple mosque to the dargah complex |