Place · Mughal garden-mosque complex · India
Qudsia Bagh, Delhi
Also known as Qudsia Begum Garden
The 1748 Qudsia Bagh at Civil Lines, Old Delhi, built by Qudsia Begum (Udham Bai, the mother of Mughal emperor Ahmad Shah Bahadur) as a 60-acre pleasure garden with a mosque, barahdari and bathing pavilion. The complex is a rare surviving late-Mughal garden built by a woman regent-patron. The 1857 siege of Delhi damaged the complex; much of the surviving structure was lost in the subsequent British clearance. The 1947-55 Delhi Development Authority preserved the surviving mosque, barahdari and the entrance gateway as the Qudsia Park. ASI protection since 1912.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Patron dynasty
- Mughal
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.662, 77.228
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- Site withinDelhi
The 1748 Qudsia Bagh sits within Delhi, specifically at Civil Lines in Old Delhi near the Yamuna. Built by Qudsia Begum as a 60-acre pleasure garden with a mosque and barahdari, the complex is a rare surviving late-Mughal garden commissioned by a woman regent-patron within the Shahjahanabad walled city periphery.
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