Jama Masjid (“Congregational Mosque”) is Delhi’s principal mosque, where the city’s Muslims traditionally gather for Friday communal prayer. It was the imperial mosque of Shahjahanabad, Shah Jahan’s capital in Delhi. Even today it is the second-largest mosque on the Indian subcontinent and an impressive example of Mughal architecture. Built with red sandstone and white marble, the mosque was constructed at the highest point in the city as the beating heart of an urban landscape, between the Red Fort on one side and Chandni Chowk (“Moonlit Square”) bazaar on the other.
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