*Jami' Masjid. Coloured drawing by Lalah Silchand. Delhi, India, 1825-26* (BL)


*Jami Masjid, Agra, showing the now demolished Tripolia Gate and gate to the mosque; by Sir James Abbott, 1826* (BL)


*The Jama Masjid, Agra, by Charles Stewart Hardinge, 1847* (BL) [*Hardinge1847*]


How desolate the Agra Jama Masjid looked, in the years right after 1857 (three albumen photos)

Source: http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LotDetail.asp?intObjectID=2534800&SE=CMWCAT02+24770+1769929171+&QR=M+1+150+Aqc0000900+24484++Aqc0000900+&entry=india&RQ=True&AN=151
(downloaded Aug. 2001)

"DR. JOHN MURRAY. The Jama Masjid, Agra. 3 albumen prints from waxed paper negatives, together forming a 3-part panorama. Circa 1858-62."


"The Jumma Masjid, Agra,"  from vol. 3 of 'The Indian empire' by Robert Montgomery Martin, c.1860

Source: http://www.archive.org/details/indianempirehist03martuoft
(downloaded Jan. 2009)


The Jama Masjid in Agra, in a tourist's albumen photograph from the 1880s; *another visitor's photo from about the same period*

Source: ebay, Nov. 2003


*The Jama Masjid in its setting: a photogravure from 1892*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2005



*"Jumma Musjid and City," a photo, c.1890's*

Source: ebay, Nov. 2009


A silver gelatin photo, c.1900; *another, similar view*

Source: ebay, Nov. 2007


*Shops outside the Jama Masjid, a visitor's photo, 1910's*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2007





A postcard view, c.1910

Source: ebay, Jan. 2011


A close look at the dome workmanship

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=119311&page=6&pp=20
(downloaded May 2006)


Details of the calligraphy and ornamental work

Source: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=119311&page=6&pp=20
(downloaded May 2006)


A modern photographer's thoughtful interior view

Source: http://www.photo.net/photo/digital/nikon-d1
(downloaded Oct. 2004)



 

The back lanes behind the Jama Masjid

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(downloaded May 2006)


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