The Jama Masjid of Delhi is one of the largest mosques in India, standing in the heart of Old Delhi. It was commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who also built the Taj Mahal and the nearby Red Fort, and it was completed in the middle of the seventeenth century after several years of work. Built of red sandstone and white marble, it has a vast courtyard that can hold many thousands of worshippers, three great gateways and two tall minarets. It was the principal royal mosque of the new Mughal capital, Shahjahanabad. The mosque is still a working place of worship and a major landmark of the city.
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