Masjid Hajat

Name of Monument: Masjid Hajat

Location: Uchchh

Date of Construction: Early years of Sultanate period.

Material and Method of Construction. Brick Construction and plastered.

The tomb is located close to the tomb of Jahanian Jahangasht. The saint usually offered prayer in this mosque. Baba Farid also stayed forty days (chilla) in this mosque. During the Sultanate period people proceeding to Haj stayed in this mosque. The mosque is square in plan measuring thirty feet on all sides in the exterior. There are 9 inch deep four centered recessed arches on four sides. There is an arched niche on the southern wall and two arched doors opening 4 feet wide on on eastern and northern wall. Two lighting niches flank on the either side of these openings, mihrab and arche recess. There is half octagonal mihrab set within the thickness of the wall.

Internally the zone of transition has squinch arches which convert the square plan into octagonal drum which finally support the dome. The mosque is plastered both in the interior and exterior.