Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra

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Commissioned by Qutb-ud-Din Aibak in 1192 and finished by 1199, with a screen of arches added by Iltutmish in 1213 — which makes it one of the oldest surviving mosques in India and the oldest standing building in Ajmer. The name means "shed of two and a half days". Hindu masons built most of it under Afghan supervision, and it shows: the pillars are Indian work, reused and recut, no two quite alike. It stopped being used as a mosque in 1947 and is a protected monument now, a short climb above the dargah. Usually quiet, even when the dargah below is not.