Delhi Gate (Delhi)

Delhi Gate (Delhi)
Delhi Gate links Daryaganj of Old Delhi with New Delhi
Sunehri Masjid, outside the southwestern corner of Delhi Gate of Red Fort, opposite the Netaji Subhash Park
View of Delhi Gate from Old Delhi side

Delhi Gate is the southern gate of one of the many gates of the historic walled city of Delhi, or Shahjahanabad. The gate links the New Delhi city with the old walled city of Delhi. At present, it stands in the middle of the road, at the end of Netaji Subhash Chandra Road, in Daryaganj.

The Gate built by Emperor Shah Jahan in 1638 as part of the rubble–built high fort walls that encircled the Shahajahanabad, and is similar in design and architecture to the northern gate of the walled city, the Kashmiri Gate (1853). Sunehri Masjid, stand outside the southwestern corner of Delhi Gate of Red Fort, opposite the Netaji Subhash Park. It was built by Nawab Qudsiya Begum, the wife of Mughal Emperor Ahmad Shah (r. 1748- 1754), in 1751.[1]

Though there is another mosque by the same name in Chandni Chowk.

Close to it, on the present Bahadur Shah Zafar Road, lies the Khooni Darwaza (The Bloody Gate), where three sons of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, were executed by William Hudson on September 21, 1857, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

References

  1. ^ Sunheri Masjid

See also

  • Gates of Delhi

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