2-651-842 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Bombay. One of the loveliest mosques in the East, the Jama Masjid, stands in the centre of Ahmadabad. The black marble slab before this main entrance is an inverted Jain idol on which the faithful trample', c1920. The Jama Masjid (literally, Friday Mosque) has been built in 1424 in the oldest part of the city of Ahmedabad, India. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 2, c1920.