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ಜಮ್ಮಾ ಮಸೀದಿ |
ಶ್ರೀ ರಂಗ ಪಟ್ಟಣದ ಹಲವಾರು ಸ್ಮಾರಕಗಳ ಪರಿಚಯ ನಡಿಗೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಜೊತೆಯಾಗಿ ಬಂದಿದ್ದೀರಿ. ನಿಮಗೆ ೨೦೧೨ ರ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು. ಬನ್ನಿ ಕಳೆದ ಸಂಚಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ "ಇನ್ಮಾನ್ಸ್ ದಂಜನ್" ಜೈಲಿನ ಹೊರಗೆ ಬಂದರೆ ನಿಮಗೆ ಕಾಣ ಸಿಗುವುದೇ ಹಳದಿ ಬಣ್ಣದ ಕಲಾ ವೈವಿಧ್ಯದ ಈ "ಜಮ್ಮಾ ಮಸೀದಿ" ನನಗೆ ದೊರೆತ 1897 ರ "SERINGAPATAM
AND ITS VICINITY " ಎಂಬ ದಾಖಲೆಯಂತೆ . OnIGIN OF l\IASZID-AULAJI OR THE GREAT MOSQUE.,
Tippu, (then a boy of 7 years of age) alan
with H.ydel' Airs zenana in a house near the Ganja
gate, fl~cing a Hindu temple dedicated to Anjanaya;
Tippu ll.)OU to play with some Hindu boys in the spaci·
ous compound of tJJat temple; while ~() engaged it hap·
pened one day that a fakir passing tl':lt way and seeing
'l'ippu, adurcssec1 him as follows; "Oll! fortlmatp "
when thon art made king of this country, wami
temple to the grouucl and erect a mosque in it'
15and future generations will honour thee, and it wili
litand a memorial of thee." Tippu with a smiling face
said that whenever by his blessings he should be marle
king he would do so. And wben '1'ippu did become
king, he pulled down the temple and a mosque was
raisl"d on the site in 1790.