Shah Alam's Tomb Wazirabad
P66H+P64, Wazirabad Rd, Wazirabad Mandiwala, Wazirabad, New Delhi, Delhi 110084, India
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Firstly, there is the tomb of saint Shah Alam, there’s no ticket required and the place is well maintained considering almost no one ever comes here. I was the only here and the place is more than six hundred years old made me happy.
The place is a bit seedy with some boys hanging around smoking and gawking, do try to come during the day time only and no unaccompanied women certainly.
Secondly, is the Wazirabad Bridge, Delhi’s oldest bridge also from the same period and still carrying traffic.
I even drove over it and was faced with an assortment of traffic including a bullock cart.
The Shah Alam tomb is located in centre of enclosed courtyard of the mosque. The tomb is planned in square form and the grave is placed over a raised plinth.
Twelve pillars are located along side of the tomb which support the domical roof at top. Sides of the tomb were originally screened with preforated jalis some of them are surving.
To reach here, the nearest bus stand is Wazirabad pul. It is just back of the Wazirabad pul bus stand. Buses coming from Mukarba chowk and going towards Anand Vihar, Chauhan Patti or harsh vihar stop here. It is about 5 kilometres from kashmeeri gate and 8 kilometres from Mukarba chowk. Within 2 kilometres Yamuna river blow here.
Every time I pass through, it could bring me many questions. It dated back to the Firoz Shah Tughlaq era, i.e. some 600 years ago.
The place seems to be a mosque most probably. There are one or two structures that I could not understand like one iwan under the main inside mosque towards the right corner (might be a place for some sacred books), one small and rectangular type dig/hole, probably a wuzu khana, and one round dome on the top of arches, no idea whether or not it was a tomb inside. Still very beautiful in a small space. This could also give us the sense of why we call this particular area Wazirabad, i.e. probably derived from the Arabic word vizir, which means the high-rank military or ministerial person. This could only be possible in the time of medieval age Muslim rule in India.