Jama Masjid, Panaji

The Jama Masjid at Panaji in the Mala quarter is the principal Friday mosque of Panaji city, built around the 1820s by Konkani-Muslim merchants under the first Portuguese decrees allowing new mosque construction after the 1812 abolition of the Goa Inquisition. The whitewashed single-dome prayer hall on a tall basalt plinth with a surrounding verandah is the earliest surviving example of a Konkani-Muslim mosque in Portuguese Goa. The adjoining dargah of Pir Mir Mohammad Shah, a Chishti Sufi saint of the 1820s, draws syncretic Hindu-Muslim veneration during the annual Urs. The mosque remains in continuous use and is the central Panaji congregational mosque.