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PROVINCIAL STYLE: GUJRAT

Presented By:
Kiran kumari

THE PROVINICAL STYLE :


GUJRAT
The Gujrat style is the most
important of
all the provincial
style in India .
The supply of skilled indigenous
workmen .
The egotism of the powerful
Ahmed shahi dynasty who wanted
to surround themselves with

Many structures are adoptations of local


Hindu and Jain temples.
The style can be divided into three main
periods.
First period [first half of the 14 th century A. D.]
Many buildings were built using materials
from Hindu temples.
The pillars were be used as they were, while
the walls would be built of original masonry.

Second period
[first half of the 15th century A. D.]
This can also be called the Ahmed
shahi period after the Sultan Ahmed
shah.
There is more directional authority in
the buildings .

Third period
[second half of the 15th century A.D.]
Most of the development in this
phase happened under Sultan
Mahmud 1 Begarha [1458-1511.]
Main buildings of this period :
Sidi Sayyid Masjid
Jami Masjid at champanir

JAMA MASJID OF
AHMEDABAD
LOCATION
The Jama masjid of Ahmadabad was
probbly the largest masjid in India
subcontinent built in this period .
The mosque is located south of the
processional axis thats run from the
Madan -i shahat the door with 3
archs , Teen darwaza.

ARCHITECTURE
Built with yellow sand stone .
The mosque complex is centered
75m long and 66m wide .
The courtyard is lined with a
colonnade on three sides , the prayer
hall occupies the fourth [east] side.
The prayer room is also rectangular
and covered by four domes.

Some of the central domes are


carved like lotus flower , closely
related to the typical domes of Jain
temples.
The wide open courtyard floored with
white marble.
It has a tank for ritual ablutions in
the centre.
The main prayer hall has cover 260
columns supportings the roof , with

The wall of prayer ,the qibla is


decorated.
The pierced stone [jalis] are placed of
the central openings .
The main entrance is formed by two
columns ,the remains of 2 minrates
which were destroyed by the
earthquakes of 1819 and 1957.

TIN DARWAZA OR TRIPLE


GATEWAY
Teen darwaza is one of the longest
as well as the oldest gateways of the
Ahmedabad city.
It is constructed in the year 141 A.D.

by Sultan Ahmed shah , who


founded the city of Ahmedabad .
The walls and pillared of the Tin
darwaza are beautifully designed .
The windows of this fabulous
monument are semi circular .
The central window has a tree of life
with snakes draped around five
palms tree .This is

being used as the symbol of the


Gujrat government .
Tin darwaza is 37 in height .
It is 80 wide and 45 deep.

THE RAUZA OR MASOLEUM OF


SAYYID USMAN
The rauza or masoleum of Sayyid
usman at Usmanpur , suburb on the
opposite side of the river from
Amedabad .
It consists two buildings , the tomb
and its mosque .
Both structures are planned on a
hypostyle principle.
The mosque is one of the earliest
examples of

this type to have its minarets situated


at each end of its open pillared
sanctuary.
Each separate elements of this
building is skilfully designed .
It is balanced building square in
plan , with the tomb camber a square
hall in the centre and roofed by a
dome .
This dome covers a space of 40 side

An additional pillar in each angle of


the square hall , producing a twelve
sided figure on which the circular
base of the dome rests .

AHMED SHAHS MOSQUE


The old mosque was a private capel
for the royal house hold.
The mosque situated in Bhara citadel
was ment for offering prayer by king
and his novels.
It constructed to Sultan Ahmed
Shah-I in 1414 A.D.
It represent the earliest
architectural style of

its clam in Ahmedabad.

JAMI MASJID
Jami masjid of Ahemdabad is one of the
biggest and oldest mosque of India built by
Ahmed shah .
Jami masjid is known for its fine and
amazing architecture .
The mosque has a total of 260 pillars
supporting 15 domes at different
elevation .
The Jami masjid also had tall minarets ,
which were destroyed in an earthquke .

Courtyard on a spacious 75 metre long


and 66 metre wide marble courtyard
with entrances on three sides west
,south and north .
The architecture of the jami masjid
shows distinctive Hindu and Jain
influences .
Clearly visible on the decorative wall of
the mosque .
There is also a long rectangular ablution
tank in the centre.

The prayer hall of the mosque is a


rectangular area with five
symmetrical domes .
One of the distinct feature of this
mosque is its royal gallery with
beautiful stonework .

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