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1. Influence of
Indo-Islamic
architecture in India

2. contents
• What is Indo-Islamic architecture
• How did Muslim architecture taken place in India.
• Elements of Islamic architecture.
• 1st structure of Islamic style architecture.
• How did Islamic architecture influence the Indian
architecture.

3. -INDO-ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE MEANS
Indo-Islamic architecture means the architecture which is erected with the
both Indian and Islamic architectural elements .
-Muslims architecture in India
Despite an initial Arab presence in Sindh, the development of Indo-
Islamic architecture began in earnest with the establishment of Delhi as
the capital of the ghurids dynasty in 1193. Succeeding the ghurids was
the Delhi Sultanate, a series of Central Asian dynasties that
consolidated much of North India, and later the Mughal Empire by the
15th century. Both of these dynasties introduced Persianate, Turkic and
Islamicate architecture and art styles from Western Eurasia into the
Indian subcontinent.

4. -Elements of
Islamic architecture
The main architectural
elements of Islamic
architecture are the dome,
arch, and Muqarnas vault.
These forms can be found
throughout buildings of
this style. The dome is often
one of the only parts of the
exterior of the building that is
decorated, because it is seen
as very important.

5. 1st structure of Islamic style
architecture
Quwwat ul Islam mosque
The important Qutb Complex in Delhi was begun
under Muhammad of Ghor, by 1199, and continued
under Qutb al-Din Aibak and later sultans. The
Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, now a ruin, was the
first structure.
Qutb was a fanatical Muslim. When
his garison occupied Delhi under the command of
Muhammed Ghari in 1192, he ordered the
destruction of twenty-seven Hindu and Jain
temples to furnish building materials for the
construction of Delhi's first mosque. Quwwat-ul-
Islam, the "Glory of Islam," was hastily erected
by the young amir, who conscripted an army of
local craftsmen, presumably Hindus, to assemble
the structure.

6. The masons were forced to plaster over the highly sculpted Hindu columns and
presumably cover them with geometric designs. However, after centuries of
neglect the plaster has fallen away, revealing the original Hindu carvings.
The Quwwat-ul-Islam is best known for its tower of victory, celebrating the
Muslim conquest of India. It is built of red sandstone, gray quartz, and white
marble, but is probably inspired by the iron "Pillar of the Law" that stands on the
site. Built in the Mauryan dynasty in the 6th century, it is the only piece of the
temple that stands in its original location. Qutb built around it when he
constructed the mosque. Although made of iron, it has resisted rust for over
1,500 years, evidence of the Mauryans superb metallurgical skills.
-How did Islamic architecture influence the Indian architecture.
For brick work, mud was used and stone blocks were laid dry and secured with
each other with iron clamps. But on the arrival of muslims in india, the use of lime
was very extensive and was used not only for binding porpuses but also as plaster
for making the surface for incised decoration and encaustic enamel work.

7. The most important characteristics of Indo- Islamic architecture comprise huge domes and
pillars around it, big open yards, and great minarets. Red sandstone was a favored material to
build these structures.
India has a vast and rich heritage fo islamic architecture from kerala in the south
till kashmir in the north and from tripura in the east till gujarath in the west.
The types and forms of large buildings required by Muslim elites, with mosques and tombs
much the most common, were very different from those previously built in India. The
exteriors of both were very often topped by large domes, and made extensive use of arches.
Both of these features were hardly used in Hindu temple architecture and other indigenous
Indian styles. Both types of building essentially consist of a single large space under a high
dome, and completely avoid the figurative sculpture soq important to Hindu temple
architecture.
Islamic buildings initially adapted the skills of a workforce trained in earlier Indian traditions
to their own designs. Unlike most of the Islamic world, where brick tended to predominate,
India had highly skilled builders well used to producing stone masonry of extremely high
quality. Alongside the architecture developed in Delhi and prominent centres of Mughal culture
such as Agra, Lahore and Allahabad, a variety of regional styles developed in regional kingdoms
like the Bengal, Gujarat, Deccan, Jaunpur and Kashmir Sultanates. By the Mughal period,
generally agreed to represent the peak of the style, aspects of Islamic style began to
influence architecture made for Hindus, with even temples using scalloped arches, and later
domes.

8. This was especially the case in
palace architecture. Following the
collapse of the Mughal Empire,
regional nawabs such as in Lucknow,
Hyderabad and Mysore continued to
commission and patronize the
construction of Mughal-style
architecture in the princely states.
Indo-Islamic architecture has left
a large impact on modern Indian,
Pakistani and Bangladeshi
architecture, as in the case of its
influence on the Indo-Saracenic
Revivalism of the late British Raj.
Both secular and religious buildings
are influenced by Indo-Islamic
architecture.
Pravticalist.

9. SOME
STURETURES OF
ISLAMIC
ARCHITECTURE
Qutub minar Taj mahal
Jama Masjid Gol Gumbaz