Jama Masjid of Delhi, is one of the largest mosques in India. The mosque has two names. The older one, bestowed by Shah Jahan, is ‘Masjid-i-Jehān-Numā’, roughly translating to “mosque commanding the view of the world” in Persian and Urdu. The other more common one is ‘Jāmā Masjid’, which emerged among the common populace. Its literal translation in Arabic is “congregational mosque“. It is used in the sense of ‘Friday mosque’ (Juma Masjid), since this is when the congregational prayer is held. The term ‘Jama Masjid’ is not unique to Delhi’s mosque; since the 7th century, it has been used in the Islamic world to denote the community mosque, and hence many around the world bear this name and its variants.
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