Alai Darwaza

The Ala'i Darwaza is the southern gateway of the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque in , , , India. Built by Sultan Alauddin Khalji in 1311 and made of red sandstone, it is a square domed gatehouse with arched entrances and houses a single chamber.
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  • Type: Monument
  • Description: mosque gateway in Delhi, India
  • Also known as: “Ala’i Darwaza” and “Alai Gate”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Qutb Minar and Qutb Minar complex.

Monument
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The , also spelled Qutub Minar and Qutab Minar, is a minaret and victory tower, built during the Delhi sultanate, and comprising the Qutb complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in , South Delhi, .

Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.
The are monuments and buildings from the Delhi Sultanate at in , India. Construction of the Qutub Minar "victory tower" in the complex, named after the religious figure Sufi Saint Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, was begun by Qutb-ud-din Aibak, who later became the first Sultan of Delhi of the Mamluk dynasty.

Monument
Photo: Pawan.kamrani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a metal structure 7.21 metres high with a 41-centimetre diameter that was constructed by Chandragupta II, and now stands in the Qutb complex at in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mehrauli and Saket.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in , , India. It represents a constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly. The area is close to Gurugram and next to Vasant Kunj.

Suburb
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is a residential colony and the administrative headquarters of the South Delhi district of in . The local district headquarters are also situated on M.B. is situated 2½ km east of Alai Darwaza.

Suburb
is a residential locality in South Delhi. Situated between and , its namesake is the freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya. was initially a part of the Shahpur Jat village, in which after partition was populated in the 1950s by refugees from , after the Partition of India. is situated 3 km east of Alai Darwaza.

Alai Darwaza

Latitude
28.52422° or 28° 31′ 27″ north
Longitude
77.18569° or 77° 11′ 9″ east
Open location code
7JWVG5FP+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 476004361
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Wiki­data ID
Q61638119
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Alai Darwaza” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “علاء دروازه”
  • Arabic: “علاء دروزة”
  • Assamese: “আলাই দৰৱাজা”
  • Bengali: “আলাই দরওয়াজা”
  • German: “Alai Darwaza”
  • Hindi: “अलाई दरवाजा”
  • Malay: “Alai Darwaza”
  • Malayalam: “അലൈ ദർവാസ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਾਈ ਦਰਵਾਜ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “دروازه علایی”
  • Slovenian: “Alai Darwaza”
  • Spanish: “Alai Darwaza”
  • Tamil: “அலாய் தர்வாசா”
  • Thai: “อาลาอีดัรวาซา”
  • Turkish: “Alai Kapısı”
  • Urdu: “علائی دروازہ”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Tomb of Imam Zamin and Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque.

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