Thursday 19 April 2018

Big Mosque / Poonamalle Mosque/ Jummah Masjid / ஜும்மா மஸ்ஜித், Poonamallee, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

…. A Continuation post to  Sri Panayathamman Temple  - Exploring Poonamallee – A Heritage Walk 
15th April 2018.
During our walk we had covered this  Mosque also, apart from Hindu Temples and Churches. The Mosque follows the principles of Ahle Sunnath-wal-Jama’th.


HISTORY AND INSCRIPTIONS
This inscription was estampaged and recorded by Pulavar Se. Raju, when he was worked with Thanjavur Tamil University.  This inscription is recorded in Indo-moslemica, 1938 and Annual report on Epigraphy (B) 303 & 304 of 1939. This is the first Mosque built in Indo – Saracenic  Style in Tamil Nadu. After renovations it is not looking like Indo Saracenic style and also it was learnt this has been converted as Dargah. In the inscription plaque, they thanked Se. Raju  for identifying the details of this mosque. Now the inscription was completely covered with tiles. 

As per the inscription this Mosque was built and completed on 3rd August 1653 AD by one Rustam and his father Asthirabath Dhul-fikr, who worked under Nawab Janablath-Ul-Mulki Mir Muhammed,  the representative of Golconda,  during this period Madras was under the rule of Golconda King, Hajrat Alampanna Sultan Abdullah Syed. Sujayitha was the  Hawaldar of the fort Poonamallee at that time. 





LOCATION OF THE MOSQUE :CLICK HERE 
---OM SHIVAYA NAMA---

To be Continued ….. Exploring Poonamallee – A Heritage Walk

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