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List of Masjids in Gujarat which was built by destroying Hindu temples

LIST OF MOSQUES IN GUJARAT WHICH WERE BUILT AFTER DEMOLISHING THE HINDU TEMPLES

We give below, state-wise and district-wise, the particulars of Muslim monuments which stand on the sites and/or have been built with the materials of Hindu temples, and which we wish to recall as witnesses to the role of Islam as a religion and the character of Muslim rule in medieval India. The list is the result of a preliminary survey. Many more Muslim monuments await examination. Local traditions which have so far been ignored or neglected have to be tapped on a large scale.
We have tried our best to be exact in respect of locations, names and dates of the monuments mentioned. Even so, some mistakes and confusions may have remained. It is not unoften that different sources provide different dates and names for the same monument. Many Muslim saints are known by several names, which create confusion in identifying their mazars or dargahs. Some districts have been renamed or newly, created and a place which was earlier under one district may have been included in another. We shall be grateful to readers who point out these mistakes so that they can be corrected in our major study. This is only a brief summary.

Sita Ram Goel
It should be kept in mind that the list below doesn’t include all the temples destroyed by Muslims and converted to mosques. The below is the list of mosques and Dargahs where evidences exists of having been made after destroying the temples at these locations. In many mosques, Muslim rulers were able to eradicate all signs of temples, and hence not given in below list.
Anyone are free to visit the below list of mosques and see the remnants and materials of Hindu temples used in their construction. Archaeological Survey of India should conduct an excavation of below mosques to find out more about the ancient temples in these locations and possible mass graves around the mosque sites.

I. AHMADABAD DISTRICT
Ahmadabad
Materials of temples destroyed at Asaval, Patan and Chandravati were used in the building of this Muslim city and its monuments. Some of the monuments are listed below:
1. Palace and Citadel of Bhadra.
2. Ahmad Shah-ki-Masjid in Bhadra.
3. Jami Masjid of Ahmad Shah.
4. Haibat Khan-ki-Masjid.
5. Rani Rupmati-ki-Masjid.
6. Rani Bai Harir-ki-Masjid.
7. Malik Sarang-ki-Masjid.

8. Mahfuz Khan-ki-Masjid.
9. Sayyid Alam-ki-Masjid.
10. Pattharwali or Qutb Shah-ki-Masjid.
11. Sakar Khan-ki-Masjid.
12. Baba Lulu-ki-Masjid.
13. Shykh Hasan Muhammad Chishti-ki-Masjid.
14. Masjid at Isanpur.
15. Masjid and Mazar of Malik Shaban.
16. Masjid and Mazar of Rani Sipri (Sabarai).
17. Masjid and Mazar of Shah Alam at Vatva.
18. Maqbara of Sultan Ahmad Shah I.
Dekwara
19. Masjid (1387). Temple site.
Dholka
20. Masjid and Mazar of Bahlol Khan Ghazi. Temple site.
21. Mazar of Barkat Shahid (1318). Temple site.
22. Tanka or Jami Masjid (1316). Temple materials used.
23. Hillal Khan Qazi-ki-Masjid (1333). Temple materials used.
24. Khirni Masjid (1377). Converted Bavan Jinalaya Temple.
25. Kali Bazar Masjid (1364). Temple site.
Isapur
26. Masjid. Temple site.
Mandal
27. Sayyid-ki-Masjid (1462). Temple site.
28. Jami Masjid. Temple site.
Paldi
29. Patthar-ki-Masjid. Temple site.
Ranpur
30. Jami Masjid (1524-25). Temple site.
Sarkhej
31. Dargah of Shykh Ahmad Khattu Ganj Baksh (d. 1445). Temple materials used.
32. Maqbara of Sultan Mahmud Begada. Temple materials used.
Usmanpur
33. Masjid and Mazar of Sayyid Usman. Temple site.
II. BANASKANTHA DISTRICT
Haldvar
34. Mazar of Lun Shah and Gujar Shah. Temple site.

Halol
35. Ek Minar-ki-Masjid. Temple site.
36. Panch Munhda-ki-Masjid. Temple site.
37. Jami Masjid (1523-24). Temple site.
Malan
38. Jami Masjid (1462). Temple materials used.
III. BARODA DISTRICT
Baroda
39. Jami Masjid (1504-05) Temple site.
40. Dargah of Pir Amir Tahir with its Ghazi Masjid. Temple site.
41. Mazar of Pir Ghoda (1421-23). Temple site.
Dabhoi
42. Dargah of Panch Bibi. Temple materials used.
43. Mazar of Mai Dhokri. Temple materials used.
44. Fort. Temple materials used.
45. Hira, Baroda, Mabuda and Nandodi Gates. Temple materials used.
46. Mahundi Masjid. Temple materials used.
Danteshwar
47. Mazar of Qutbudd-Din. Temple site.
Sankheda
48. Masjid (1515-16). Temple site.
IV. BHARUCH DISTRICT
Amod
49. Jami Masjid. Temple materials used.
Bharuch
50. Jami Masjid (1321). Brahmanical and Jain temple materials used.
51. Ghaznavi Masjid (1326). Temple site.
52. Idgah (1326). Temple site.
53. Chunawada Masjid (1458). Temple site.
54. Qazi-ki-Masjid (1609). Temple site.
55. Mazar of Makhdum Sharifud-Din (1418). Temple site.
Jambusar
56. Jami Masjid (1508-09). Temple site.
Tankaria
57. Badi or Jami Masjid (1453). Temple site.
V. BHAVNAGAR DISTRICT
Botad
58. Mazar of Pir Hamir Khan. Temple site.
Tolaja
59. Idgah and Dargah of Hasan Pir. Temple site.
Ghoda
60. Masjid (1614). Temple site.
VI. JAMNAGAR DISTRICT
Amran
61. Dargah of Dawal Shah. Temple materials used.
Bet Dwarka
62. Dargah of Pir Kirmani. Temple site.
Dwarka
63. Masjid (1473). Temple site.
VII. JUNAGARH DISTRICT
Junagarh
64. Borwad Masjid (1470). Temple site.
65. Jami Masjid in Uparkot. Jain Temple site.
66. Masjid at Mai Gadhechi. Converted Jain temple.
Loliyana
67. Dargah of Madar Shah. Temple site.
Kutiana
68. Jami Masjid. Temple site.
Mangrol
69. Rahmat Masjid. Temple materials used.
70. Jami Masjid (1382-83). Temple materials used.
71. JunI Jail-ki-Masjid (1385-86). Temple site.
72. Revali Masjid (1386-87). Temple materials used.
73. Masjid at Bandar. Temple materials used.
74. Dargah near Revali Masjid. Temple materials used.
75. Mazar of Sayyid Sikandar alias Makhdum Jahaniya (1375). Temple materials used.
76. Gadhi Gate. Temple materials used.
Somnath Patan
77. Bazar Masjid (1436). Temple site.
78. Chandni Masjid (1456). Temple site.
79. Qazi-ki-Masjid (1539). Temple site.
80. Pathanwadi Masjid (1326). Temple site.
81. Muhammad Jamadar-ki-Masjid (1420). Temple site.
82. Mithashah Bhang-ki-Masjid (1428). Temple site.
83. Jami Masjid. Temple materials used.
84. Masjid made out of the Somanatha Temple of Kumarapala.
85. Masjid at the back of the Somanatha Temple. Converted temple.
86. Mota Darwaza. Temple materials used.
87. Maipuri Masjid on the way to Veraval. Temple materials used.
88. Dargah of Mangluri Shah near Maipuri Masjid. Temple materials used.
89. Shahid Mahmud-ki-Masjid (1694). Temple site.
Vanasthali
90. Jami Masjid. Converted Vamana Temple.
Veraval
91. Jami Masjid (1332). Temple site.
92. Nagina Masjid (1488). Temple site.
93. Chowk Masjid. Temple site.
94. Mandvi Masjid. Temple site.
95. Mazar of Sayyid Ishaq or Maghribi Shah. Temple site.
96. Dargah of Muhammad bin Haji Gilani. Temple site.
VIII. KACHCHH DISTRICT
Bhadreshwar
97. Solakhambi Masjid. Jain Temple materials used.
98. Chhoti Masjid. Jain Temple materials used.
99. Dargah of Pir Lal Shahbaz. Jain Temple materials used.
Bhuj
100. Jami Masjid. Temple site.
101. Gumbad of Baba Guru. Temple site.
Munra or Mundra
A Seaport built from the materials of Jain temples of Bhadreshwar which were
demolished by the Muslims
102. Safed Masjid which can be seen from afar was built from the same materials.
IX. KHEDA DISTRICT
Kapadwani
103. Jami Masjid (1370-71). Temple site.
104. Sam Shahid-ki-Masjid (1423). Temple site.
Khambhat
105. Jami Masjid (1325). Jain Temple materials used.
106. Masjid in Qaziwara (1326). Temple site.
107. Masjid in Undipet (1385). Temple site.
108. Sadi-i-Awwal Masjid (1423). Temple site.
109. Fujra-ki-Masjid (1427). Temple site.
110. Mazar of Umar bin Ahmad Kazruni. Jain Temple materials used.
111. Mazar of Qabil Shah. Temple site.
112. Mazar of Shykh Ali Jaulaqi known as Parwaz Shah (1498). Temple site.
113. Mazar of Shah Bahlol Shahid. Temple site.
114. Maqbara of Ikhtiyarud-Daula (1316). Temple site.
115. Idgah (1381-82). Temple site.
Mahuda
116. Jami Masjid (1318). Temple site.
Sojali
117. Sayyid Mubarak-ki-Masjid. Temple site.
X. MEHSANA DISTRICT
Kadi
118. Masjid (1384). Temple site.
119. Masjid (1583). Temple site.
Kheralu
120. Jami Masjid (1409-10). Temple site.
Modhera
121. Rayadi Masjid. Temple site.
Munjpur
122. Jami Masjid (1401-02). Temple site.
Patan
123. Jami Masjid (1357). Temple materials used.
124. Phuti Mahalla or Pinjar Kot-ki-Masjid (1417). Temple site.
125. Bazar-ki-Masjid (1490). Temple site.
126. Masjid in a field that was the Sahasralinga Talav. Temple materials used.
127. Masjid and Dargah of Makhdum Husamud-Din Chishti, disciple of Shykh izamud-Din Awliya ofDelhi. Temple materials used.
128. Gumda Masjid (1542). Temple site.
129. Rangrezon-ki-Masjid (1410-11). Temple site.
130. Dargah of Shykh Muhammad Turk Kashgari (1444-45). Temple site.
131. Dargah of Shykh Farid. Converted temple.
Sami
132. Jami Masjid (1404). Temple site.
Sidhpur
133. Jami Masjid. Built on the site and with the materials of the Rudra-mahalaya Temple of Siddharaja Jayasimha.
Una
134. Dargah of Hazrat Shah Pir. Temple site.
Vijapur
135. Kalan Masjid (1369-70). Temple site.
136. Mansuri Masjid. Temple site.
XI. PANCH MAHALS DISTRICT
Champaner
137. Jami Masjid (1524). Temple site.
138. Bhadra of Mahmud Begda. Temple site.
139. Shahr-ki-Masjid. Temple site.
Godhra
140. Masjid. Temple site.
Pavagadh
141. Masjid built on top of the Devi Temple.
142. Panch Munhda Masjid. Temple site.
143. Jami Masjid. Temple site,
Rayania
144. Masjid (1499-1500). Temple site.
XII. RAJKOT DISTRICT
Jasdan
145. Dargah of Kalu Pir. Temple materials used.
Khakhrechi
146. Jami Masjid. Temple site.
147. Dargah of Kamal Shah Pir. Temple site.
Mahuva
148. Idgah (1418). Temple site.
Malia
149. Jami Masjid. Temple site.
Morvi
150. Masjid (1553). Temple site.
Santrampur
151. Masjid (1499-1500). Temple site.
XIII. SABARKANTHA DISTRICT
Hersel
152. Masjid (1405). Temple site.
Himmatnagar
153. Moti-Mohlat Masjid in Nani Vorwad (1471). Temple site.
Prantij
154. Fath or Tekrewali Masjid (1382). Temple site.
155. Dargah of Sikandar Shah Shahid (d. 1418). Temple materials used.
XIV. SURAT DISTRICT
Navasari
156. Jami Masjid (1340). Temple site.
157. Shahi Masjid. Temple site.
Rander
The Jains who predominated in this town were expelled by Muslims and all temples of the former were converted into mosques. The following mosques stand on the site of and/or are constructed with materials from those temples:
158. Jami Masjid.
159. Nit Nauri Masjid.
160. Mian-ki-Masjid.
161. Kharwa Masjid.
162. Munshi-ki-Masjid.
Surat
163. Mirza Sami-ki-Masjid (1336). Temple site.
164. Nau Sayyid Sahib-ki-Masjid and the nine Mazars on Gopi Talav in honour of nine Ghazis. Temple sites.
165. Fort built in the reign of Farrukh Siyar. Temple materials used.
166. Gopi Talav (1718). Temple materials used.
Tadkeshwar
167. Jami Masjid (1513-14). Temple site.
XV. SURENDRANAGAR DISTRICT
Sara
168. Darbargadh-ki-Masjid (1523). Temple site.
Vad Nagar
169. Masjid (1694). Stands on the site of the Hatakevara Mahadeva temple.
Wadhwan
170. Jami Masjid (1439). Temple site.

EVIDENCE IS AVAILABLE THAT IN GUJARAT THE ABOVE MENTIONED MOSQUES AND DARGAHS WERE CONSTRUCTED BY DESTROYING HINDU TEMPLES. BUT IN MANY OTHER CASES MUSLIMS SUCCEEDED IN REMOVING ALL TRACES OF TEMPLES FROM THE MOSQUES. IN SUCH CASES ONLY AN EXCAVATION BY ASI WILL REVEAL THE DESTROYED TEMPLES.
WHILE MUSLIMS ASK FOR REBUILDING THE ILLEGAL MOSQUE IN AYODHYA, WHY SHOULD NOT HINDUS DEMAND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE DESTROYED TEMPLES IN INDIA?

RudraMahalaya, awaiting revival of worship

Article by Nayandeep

As they say truth needs a big cover for the lie to prosper. In the case of Hindu temples, the wanton destruction, conversion to mosques and cover of time as it passed was used to propagate the superiority of Islam over the infidels. What was unmatched in beauty of architecture and construction was destroyed, mutilated and converted into what the invaders wanted the history to remember.

But truth cannot be long hidden, history shows of the strange manners in which truth resurfaced. Minor repair works, accidental discoveries and excavations have resulted in a large no of temples being discovered beneath new structures which were constructed to destroy a glorious civilization. It might have succeeded in other places but in a country which never gave up fighting and where entire Vedas are memorised verbally, nothing could destroy it.

One such wonder of our time is Rudra Mahalaya of Sidhpur, Gujarat now known as Jami Masjid after its destruction and take over by the invading Muslim hordes. Rudra Mahalaya is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Siva. It was constructed by Chalukyas, started in 943 AD by Mularaja and completed in 1140 AD by Jayasimha Siddharaja. It’s grandeur can be gouged from the fact that even Sultan Ahmad Shahs historians in the book Mirat e Sikandari wrote of the idols inside the Rudra Mahalaya which they said could put the idols of China and Khotan to shame. It clearly states that by the efforts of Sultan and his General Ulugh Khan, Rudra Mahalaya was rid of the idols.

Famous Historian Sita Ram Goel in his book “Hindu Temples what happened to them” has given an incident when Maharaja Jaswant Singh was appointed Governor of Gujarat in 1658, his historian Munhata Nai Nasi made a visit and in his words Sidhpur had lost the spiritual glory and importance during the centuries which followed after its destruction. According to him Sidhpur was founded by Siddharao, who named the place after himself and invited one thousand Brahmans well versed in Vedas to settle there and granted 700 villages around Siddhpur to them. The temple was destroyed by the Sultan Alauddin and many Brahmans were massacred, still some portion of it survived only to be attacked by the next invading horde.

BL Nagarach an expert archaeologist further states that during excavation he found “a standing idol of an Apsara”, “four armed Varuna” and a “two armed female deity holding a sword and a cut head”. Even a layman can tell that mosques do not have idols inside them, unless otherwise the mosque is a Hindu temple under siege. It is pertinent to note that the Archaeological Survey of India’s (ASI) report of the year 1979-80 published in 1983 stated finding Hindu and Jain pantheons stretching back to the 10th century. In one of his chapters Nai Nasi had included a poem by poet Lalla bhat praising the Rudra Mahalaya, Lalla Bhatt says “18000 statues studded with diamonds and 30000 flag staffs with carved stems and gold leaves and thousands of sculpted horses and elephants stand in attendance before the Rudra”

In a nation where even reclaiming the birth place of Lord Rama is still a far thought, there are thousands more temples of our ancestors looking at each of us and waiting for us to to build a collective resolve and come out of our complacency of centuries and simply reclaim what was always ours.

As the famous saying goes a closed room is only in dark as long as no one opens a window and let’s the sun in. We all collectively can open these windows and let in the “Sun” whom we worship. Let it purify centuries of neglect and shine on our great legacy. Time to revive our Heritage, our Civilisation and our Dharma.

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Jama Masjid Ahmedabad, an ancient Hindu temple

Article by Nayandeep

They say to build a new narrative the old narrative has to go,and if the old narrative represents something unmatched far superior then breaking and assimilating it is the only way forward for the one replacing it. The same applies to the history of Hindu Dharma and it’s living islands of history, culture and artistry, primarily it’s ancient temples.
Right from the days of Mohammed bin Qasim to the bigoted Aurengzeb and still continuing in the form of various Jihadi outlets in our present times, one narrative continues incessantly and that’s the destruction of Hindu temples or simply making mosque out of them as and when the numbers and favorable demography dictates. Markandey sun temple in Kashmir, Ram temple of Ayodhya, Vishwanath temple of Varanasi are some of the famous one’s that come to mind apart from the thousands of others that were destroyed. One such living proof of such wanton destruction of Dharma lies in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat State of India. Formerly Ahmedabad was known as Karnavati under the benign Rajput rulers and original structure and name of the temple where Jama masjid exists today was Bhadrakali temple. After his victory over the infidels the Sultan Ahmad Shah 1 destroyed the statues and converted once a famous temple dedicated to Goddess Bhadrakali to a Masjid.

Even if one ignores the word and history of the persecuted Hindu’s the very walls and carvings on the pillars supporting the structure are full of idols, animals, serpents and elephant, this very fact goes against the essence of Islam followed by the sultan. Primarily the open space for offering Namaz is crisscrossed by these very same pillars which are built in a typical Hindu way of construction. The question that needs an answer is that why would a Islamist Sultan Ahmed Shah built a mosque with pagan carvings on its pillars and have pillars obstruct the Namaz of the faithful.

 

 

Perhaps the answer lies in the observation of noted researcher P.N.Oak where he delivers an interesting and thought provoking observation where he said that after 35 years meticulous study of history buildings and cities he never believed that among the many invaders, that Sultan Ahmed Shah 1 built Ahmedabad, in his own words he said and I quote “It is easily assumed that Ahmed Shah built Ahmedabad and Tughlaq Shah raised Tughlaqabad. If that were true Allahabad should have been founded by Allah himself and Delhi’s Rashtrapati bhavan by some Rashtrapati”. Among the others who hold the same view is Mr M.k.Aggarwal the writer of the book The Vedic core of human history and truth will be saviour, he clearly claims of the Hindu origin of the Jama Masjid he observes that why would pillars with serpents elephants and fairies which are an anathema to Islam be built in a mosque and that too in middle of prayer halls.

 

Common sense dictates that did the Sultan wanted the faithful to bang their heads or simply took over an ancient piece of artistic beauty and when was unable to match it by his own beliefs he simply did a cosmetic surgery of the temple and called it a masjid but was not able to completely do away with the pillars as the whole structure depended on it.

 

What hope do the Hindus have of reclaiming this Bhadrakali temple? If it’s to be done, the time is now and for that two things have to take place simultaneously, the Slumber and Dhimmitude of the present has to go and Hindu Renaissance and Revival has to be forged.

 

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