Shrine of Ibrahim

The Shrine of Ibrahim, known locally as Lal Shahbaz Dargah, was built around 1160 in Bhadresar in Kutch district, Gujarat, India. It is one of the earliers extant Islamic monuments in India. The shrine is mistakenly attributed to Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, whose shrine is instead located in Pakistan.[1]

Shrine

The shrine, in a small walled enclosure, has a square pyramid shaped dome, round in the inside and supported on eight pillars set against the wall. The roof of the porch is flat is divided in 9×3 small squares, each with lotus flowers inside. Round the architrave, above the vine-ornamented wall-head course, there is a deep line of Arab inscription in large square Kufic characters, and on the right-end of the wall there are two lines of inscription. In the court some graves also have Kufic inscriptions. These epigraph constructed in 1160 marked the first use of Kufic script in India. According to an inscription in the monument, it is a shrine to Ibrahim.[2][3][4]

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References
  1. Shokoohy, Mehrdad (1988). Bhadreśvar: The Oldest Islamic Monuments in India. BRILL. p. 14. ISBN 9789004083417.
  2. Shastri, Parth (24 February 2012). "Epigraphs from Sultanate period in Guj show integration of faiths". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  3. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Cutch, Palanpur, and Mahi Kantha (Public Domain text). Printed at the Government Central Press. 1880. p. 215.
  4. James Burgess (1876). Report on the Antiquities of Kutch & Kathiawar: Being the Result of the Second Season's Operations of the Archaeological Survey of Western India, 1874-1875. London: India Museum. pp. 205–210. Retrieved 27 August 2016. Alt URL


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