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Begun in the 1870s under Begum Shah Jahan of Bhopal, it was not completed until the 1980s, and it is now among the largest mosques in the world.
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Nearly a thousand years ago the work stopped mid-construction. The ramp used to haul stones to the roof still lies beside a Shivalinga nearly 7.5 feet tall.
Sikandar Begum, one of four women who ruled Bhopal in succession, built this pink-and-white mosque as a smaller echo of Delhi's Jama Masjid.