Mark's pictures are first up this time!
a very small carnival.
Delhi morning traffic
there was no lane next to us, but that did not stop the van, tuk tuk and motor cycles from making it into a lane.
Once we climbed to the courtyard, we had to remove our shoes and all the ladies had to put on a robe type thing, our heads did not need to be covered.
A little bit about the mosque:
he Masjid-i Jahān-Numā (World-reflecting Mosque), commonly known as the Jama Masjid of Delhi, is one of the largest mosques in India.
It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan between 1644 and 1656 at a cost of 1 million rupees, and was inaugurated by an imam from Bukhara, present-day Uzbekistan. The mosque was completed in 1656 AD with three great gates, four towers and two 40 m high minarets constructed of strips of red sandstone and white marble. The courtyard can accommodate more than 25,000 persons. There are three domes on the terrace which are surrounded by the two minarets. On the floor, a total of 899 black borders are marked for worshippers. The architectural plan of Badshahi Masjid, built by Shah Jahan's son Aurangzeb at Lahore, Pakistan, is similar to the Jama Masjid, Delhi.
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