DARGAH MUIN UD-DIN CHISHTI (TOMB OF MUIN UD-DIN CHISHTI)
Site consisting of a complex of mosques, tombs and halls, and home to the dargah of the Sufi saint Maïn ud-Din Chisti
A huge gateway, surmounted by a gallery of poly-lobed arches and surrounded by two minarets, opens onto the most important pilgrimage site of Muslims in India. The site hosts the dargah of the Sufi saint Maïn ud-Din Chisti and consists of a set of mosques, tombs and halls.
On each side of the first courtyard, all paved with white marble, you will notice huge cauldrons(deg) intended to collect donations from visitors. During the festival of Urs, phenomenal quantities of rice are cooked here - 2,240 kg in the smallest and twice that in the largest - which are then sold as tabarruk (sanctified food). To the right stands the mosque built by Emperor Akbar after the birth of his son Jehangir.
The next courtyard contains the tomb itself, covered by a white dome. Walk through the doorway decorated with Quranic verses and floral motifs (one of the few pictorial fantasies permitted in Islam). A silver barrier channels the crowd of pilgrims who cover the tomb with rose petals. Other tombs are raised in the vicinity, including those of Hafiz Jamal, the daughter of the saint, also venerated with devotion, and Chimni Begum, a daughter of the emperor Shah Jahan. The latter also built a mosque decorated with eleven white marble arches (at the back of the courtyard).
The dargah is known by many different names: Ajmer Sharif Dargah, Khawaja Gharib Nawaz, Khwaja Baba or Khwaja Sahib.
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