Place · Sufi dargah · India
Takia Mazar, Ambikapur
The shrine of Baba Murad Shah and Baba Muhammad Shah at Takiya, beside Ambikapur, where an annual Urs is held.
Islamic & Sufi
- Periods
- British Colonial Age, Republic and Living Practice
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.118, 83.213
Worth knowing
It is the Sufi presence in a district whose other shrines are almost all goddess or Shiva cults, and the Urs draws across those lines rather than only from the town's Muslim families.
Connections (1)
- Teaching lineageAjmer Sharīf
The Takiya shrine is the Sufi presence in a district whose cults are otherwise goddess and Shiva. Like most dargahs of the eastern uplands it stands in the broad Chishti ambit of which Ajmer is the centre.
Sources
Commissioner, Surguja Division (division-surguja.cg.gov.in), tourist-destination pages, 2026; coordinates supplied by the editor
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