Sardar Khan's Roza

Sardar Khan's Roza
Nawab Sardar Khan's Roza c.1860
Religion
Affiliation	Islam
Status	Active
Location
Location	Jamalpur, Ahmedabad
Municipality	Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
State	Gujarat
Location in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Show map of Ahmedabad Sardar Khan's Roza (Gujarat) Show map of Gujarat
Geographic coordinates	23.015561°N 72.583761°E / 23.015561; 72.583761
Architecture
Type	Mosque and tomb
Style	Indo-Islamic architecture with Persian domes
Completed	1685
Specifications
Dome(s)	3+6
Minaret(s)	2

Sardar Khan's Roza or Nawab Sardar Khan's Mosque and Tomb, is a mosque and tomb complex in Jamalpur area of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

History and architecture

Sardar Khan was a minister of Ahmedabad during Mughal rule. After Dara Shikoh lost the battle of Deorai (near Ajmer) in 1659, he fled to Gujarat and attempted to enter its capital, Ahmedabad. Sardar Khan, however, deposed the governor Shaikh Ahmad Bukhari who had been appointed by Dara Shikoh, and declared allegiance to Aurangzeb. The next year Sardar Khan was appointed fauzdar of Bharuch by the emperor Aurangzeb. In 1662, Sardar Khan was transferred to Idar to stamp out local rebels. From 1664 to 1684, he served as fauzdar of Sorath (Saurashtra), taking residence at its capital of Junagadh. In 1684, he was sent to Thatta in Sindh where he soon died. His body was brought to Ahmedabad and installed in the tomb he had built for himself.^[1][2]

Sardar Khan's Roza was built in 1685. The tomb of Sardar Khan was built of stone and had a marble floor. The mosque was made of bricks situated on high platform, and the façade of the mosque had three pointed arches and two minarets on either side. The minarets were four storeys high, which were octagonal at the base and circular in the upper parts. This minaret had gilt balls on the top and had three large onion shaped domes, while the gateway had two domes too.^[3][4][5] The tomb and mosque have been encroached since 1884 and are in bad shape now.^[1][6][7][8]

Mosque and Tomb

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  Top view of tomb.
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  Side view of encroached tomb site.

References

1. India Today. Vol. 17. Living Media India Pvt. Limited. 1992. p. 113.
2. Commissariat, M.S. (1957). A History of Gujarat: With a Survey of its Monuments and Inscriptions. Vol. II, The Mughal Period: From 1573 to 1758. Orient Longmans. pp. 157–158, 169, 170, 183.
3. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad. Government Central Press. 1879. p. 319. dastur khan mosque. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. "Nawab Sardar Khan's Mosque, on the Jamalpur road, Ahmadabad". British Library. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
5. Desai, Hemang (26 November 2010). "The story of how architecture in Gujarat got a Mughal touch…". DNA. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
6. John, Paul (29 July 2012). "Mughal icons decaying in citye". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
7. "PEARLS OF PAST: Need Some Elbow Room". The Times of India. 25 November 2011. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
8. Jani, Mehul (22 November 2011). "Neglect buries two heritage tombs". Times of India. Retrieved 8 December 2014.^{[dead link]}