Sidi Saiyyed Mosque

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Sidi Saiyyed Mosque, Ahmedabad© Wikimedia Commons

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Sidi Saiyyed Mosque, Ahmedabad© Bernard Gagnon (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Jali at Sidi Saiyyed Mosque© Bernard Gagnon (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Sidi Saiyyed Mosque name plate© Mistrykaushal (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Built in 1572-73 by Sidi Sayyad, a Habshi nobleman in the service of the Gujarat Sultanate, and a Monument of National Importance. Nobody comes for the mosque as a whole — they come for one window. The jali on the western wall is cut from a single slab into a tree with intertwined branches and palm fronds, and it has become the city's emblem: the Indian Institute of Management borrowed it for its logo and it turns up on everything from tea packets to shopfronts. It is a working mosque, so time a visit outside prayers.