Jama Masjid

Meerut-based Jama Masjid is a Sultanate-period mosque and one of the first few Islamic places of worship in the Indian Sub-Continent. Located at the highest grounds of the walled city, the construction of the 12th-century mosque was started by Qutubuddin Aibak and finished by Naseeruddin Mehmood, the grandson of Iltutmish in the early 13th century. Later Mehmood became the 8th Sultan of Delhi. The inner walls of the mosque that can house 1,000 devotees are engraved with unique Islamic calligraphy of those times which are rare to find in the modern era.