{"id":543,"date":"2012-07-26T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T03:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2012-07-26T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T03:40:23","slug":"jamia-masjid-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Jamia Masjid Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/div><div class=\"flexslider\"><ul class=\"slides\"><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1611-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1602-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1600-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_16111-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_16021-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_16001-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1599-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1597-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1595-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1594-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1593-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1585-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1561-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_1536-904x500.jpg\" class=\"slide-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"content\">\n<p>Xavier exclaimed that he Jamia Masjid Mosque was one of the best buildings he had ever been. \u00a0It is one of the great mosques\/cathedrals and inside it you feel it is very special. \u00a0It is situated in the middle of Srinagar in the Nowatta area, at the cents of the old city. \u00a0It was built by Sultan Sikandar in 1400 AD. \u00a0Later, the son of Sultan Sikandar, Zain-ul-Abidin got the mosque extended. TThe guide books describe the architecture as\u00a0Indo-Saracenic, there is a a magnificent courtyard and 370 wooden pillars. Inside, you feel the peace and tranquility, standing out against the hustle of the old bazaars around it. Thousands of Muslims assemble at the mosque every Friday to offer their prayers.<\/p>\n<p>We walked through the local bazaars, shopping for thongs and having a peek at what was on offer. \u00a0The deeper you go into Srinagar, the more &#8216;bearded persons&#8217; you see [says Latifa, out Houseboat owner]. \u00a0People are genuinely warm and welcoming, I think particularly so because of Xavier and Mei. \u00a0There is a feeling of optimism that the militancy period is behind them &#8230; we hope so too! \u00a0During the dark days of the &#8217;90&#8217;s the men had to leave for other parts of India, where they were treated with fear and ostracised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier exclaimed that he Jamia Masjid Mosque was one of the best buildings he had ever been. \u00a0It is one of the great mosques\/cathedrals and inside it you feel it is very special. \u00a0It is situated in the middle of Srinagar in the Nowatta area, at the cents of the old city. \u00a0It was built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Afwe-8L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephinewilson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}