1 Mihrab Graveyard at Vasant Vihar (Mission for Indian History and Archaeology)
New Delhi, India

1959-62 Survey


Located approximately 1.2 km northwest of Munīrkā village. Grid ref. E-10

This graveyard is built on a plinth. There is just a small wall mosque with one miḥrāb in the west. Period III.

IOC: VII-37 


ムニールカー部落の北西約1.2キロメートルにある。附図.E-10

この墓地は,基壇の上にあり,西の部分に,一つのミフラーブをもつ小さな礼拝壁をそなえているのみである。第Ⅲ期。

東研.Ⅶ-37


2015-18 Survey


No remains of this structure could be found in the 2015 and 2018 surveys.


[現状]2015・18年の調査では確認することができなかった。


[壁モスク]1959-62年の3枚の写真が残るのみで、低い基壇があり、西壁両端に円形断面塔型(基壇の位置に頂部飾をまわす)を配し、中央ミフラーブがある。ミフラーブ南面をスタッコ仕上で、1ミフラーブであったと思われる。


(Paragraph 2nd from the 2015-18 Survey is translated using Google Translate)


[Wall mosque] Only three photographs from 1959-62 remain, and it has a low base, circular cross-section towers (with the top ornament around the base) on both ends of the west wall, and a central mihrab. The south side of the mihrab is finished in stucco, and it is thought to have been a single mihrab.


Map Reference: Grid ref. E-10

IOC Reference: G27, VII-37 

ASI Reference: 

Archived IOC Site Record: https://perma.cc/8EZZ-RXG5 


Mission Credit Line: Mission for Indian History and Archaeology, University of Tokyo, in 1959-60, 1961-62: the Resurvey of the Delhi Monuments, Research and Information Center for Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo in 2015-18.

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E-7, Block E, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, India

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The structure was constructed during the rule of the Lodi and the Sayyid dynasties of the Delhi Sultanate, Period III, corresponding to Gregorian years 1414-1525 CE; Hijri 816-931 AH.

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1 miḥrāb Graveyard at Vasant Vihar
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1 mihrab wall mosque at Vasant Vihar
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