Jaunpur: Of Masjids and Imartis
Jaunpur and the magic of Sharqi architecture This piece finds place in Sunday Herald . Thanks are due to the team at Deccan Herald . Warm thanks to Sanjay D, Dheeraj, Kumar, Siddhartha and Sanjay M for being together on the trips. Some images from a previous post on Jaunpur – here . What it is about these old and large masjids that one experiences a unique peace and calm here- a colleague asked. They also appear strong enough to stand tall for another few hundred years at least – remarked another. Three of us were at the Jami Masjid in Jaunpur. We had driven from Banaras. 75 kms. From the town we took the road heading to the airport and went further. Rail is another option: Jaunpur is on the Lucknow – Varanasi route. However, despite this proximity to and connectivity with Banaras Jaunpur lags far behind on the tourism front. Is this despite Banaras or because of Banaras we wondered. On the other hand, these monuments of Jaunpur, possibly the bes