As the capital of India, Delhi is full of various historical sites. So it is the biggest mosque of the country, JAMA Masjid. It was built in 1650-1656 years, during the reign of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who also initiated the construction of the famous Taj Mahal.

The mosque is located on the main street of old Delhi. It was originally known as the Masjid-I Jahan-NUMA, and the name "JAMA" comes from the word "Jammeh" is a weekly service that is held at noon every Friday.

JAMA Masjid has a very impressive size, its capacity is 25 thousand people. It is a complex of a main building and surrounding courtyard, high walls, and the dimensions are 8058 549 meters on meters. The courtyard is accessed through one of three gates on the South, North and East, to each gate is a large staircase, and each has a different number of steps, the longest consists of 774 steps and leads to the North gate. The Central building has a square shape, and is built on a kind of platform height of 1.5 m. On the roof are 8 domes, decorated with white and purple marble stripes. Two three-tiered minaret of the mosque have a height of 41m, and built of white marble and red Sandstone. Each of them is a staircase of 130 steps.

Inside the mosque is a few rooms for praying. They are decorated with magnificent marble arches. In one of the rooms on a slab of white marble inlaid inscriptions also of marble, but black.

Despite the huge number of visitors, is a working mosque, so before entering you must remove your shoes, and to wear special clothes, and during the prayer people, non-Muslims are forbidden to go in there.