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Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai will entice you with its architectural splendor. Located close to the Anna flyover on Anna Salai Road in Chennai in India, Thousand Lights Mosque is also a famous pilgrimage site for the Shia community in the country. History says that the site of Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai used to be thronged by the Shias, a sect of Muslims in the month of Moharram during early 19th century. An assembly hall came into place when the Arcot family built an one in 1810 A.D. and then constructed a mosque in 1820 over three acres of land donated by Nawab Wallajah. Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai derived its name from the lighting of about 1000 oil lamps. This mosque was refurbished many times since its foundation.
Features of Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai
- Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai also offers a library, burial ground and a guesthouse.
- Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai displays the popular medieval architectural style in its structure.
- There is a multi-domed building with two exalting minarets in Thousand Lights Mosque.
- You will also find the dictums from the holy book, Koran painted on the structure.
- There is a main hall in the ground floor for offering prayers.
- There is a separate hall for women to pray and worship in Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai.
- Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai has two rooms called Bargah on the second floor for the sanctuary.
- The wooden planks on the second floor are there to stand as the sanctuary of Imam Hossein and Abolfazl-al-Abbas.
- Located at the crossing of Mount Road and Peters Road, Thousand Lights Mosque in Chennai, will haunt you back to into the depths of Islam, which will be induced the sight of aesthetics enchanting you inside the structure.
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