Eid Gah Mosque is the second
largest mosque in Kabul, the Capital of Afghanistan. It is considered the
cardinal religious mosque in the country, where a million people offer Eid
prayers twice a year. Its located near the Mahmud Khan bridge and National
Stadium in the eastern part of the city, in the Shar-e-Barq of Kabul, which is
one of the wealthier areas of the city. In most reference Babur, a Muslim
warrior at the time had just invaded and devastated India and ordered a Mosque
be built to glorify Islam, he had his warriors bring back precious stone from
the Punjab, Sindh and surrounding areas and had Persian architects build a
structure for his Kabul subjects.
No comments:
Post a Comment