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Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque
The Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque is the earliest surviving mosque in Delhi, begun in the 1190s by Qutb al-Din Aybak after the Ghurid conquest, in what is now the Qutb complex. It was built largely of columns and stones taken from demolished Hindu and Jain temples, with a great screen of carved arches added soon after. Later sultans, including Iltutmish and Alauddin Khalji, enlarged it.
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