SITUATED IN
The Friday Mosque, also known as the Jumah Mosque, is a mosque in the city of Herat, in the Herat Province of north-western Afghanistan. It was built
BUILT IN AND BYE
It was built IN 1500 by the Timurids and extended by several rulers swapping hands down the centuries between the Timurids, Safavids, and for a brief time the Mughals supported the mosque before switching hands.
HISTORY OF MOSQUE
the Friday Mosque in Herat was given its present form during the closing years of the fifteenth century. Apart from numerous small neighborhood mosques for daily prayer, most communities in the Islamic world have a larger mosque for Friday services with a sermon. This was not always the largest mosque in Herat; a much larger complex also built by the Timurids, the Mosque and Madressa of Gawharshad, was located to the north. Those architectural monuments were dynamited by officers of the British Indian Army under British supervision in 1885 so that it could not be used as a fortress if a Russian army tried to invade India.
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