Mosque at Fatephur Sikri

Left Agra about 7ish to drive to Jaipur in Rajasthan, stopping off at the abandoned city/fort at Fatephur Sikri.

Built in the early 1500s by the Mughal Emporer, Akber, it served as his capital before he moved it to Delhi shortly after it's completion. It's maily a tourist destination now but there is still a working madrasa and mosque inside (where I took this pic).

I don't normally go for portrait shots in my album but knew it had to be so with this pic... I'd spotted the old gent sweeping and hoped he wouldn't move out of shot before I manged to grab a snap..

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Melanie Savage

I love the architecture, patterns, texture and colours!

April 19th, 2012

Amy Scott

Fabulous Shot Andy!

April 19th, 2012

Phil

Ooh that's lovely - all the arches and colours, and yes the chap finishes it off perfectly!
PS What's a working madras?

April 19th, 2012

andy c

@filsie65 thanks - a madras is a islamic religous school and inside the fort, there was classes going on with about 20 youngc hildren..

April 19th, 2012

Phil

@andycoleborn Well that's something new I learned today! Does it have a connection with the dish we know as madras?

April 19th, 2012

andy c

@filsie65 whoops - I mena madrasa... Missed the a off the end :-)... haha no, Madras (now Chenni) is a city in south east India... although madras isn't eated over there... It's a UK invention :-)

April 19th, 2012

Phil

@andycoleborn Oh gosh - so a madrasa is a religious school and a madras is an English dish with Indian flavours and Madras is a city which doesn't exist any more it's now called Chenni... I'm guessing it's hot there...?
Have I caught up?!

April 19th, 2012

andy c

@filsie65 lol perfect :-)... yeah, apparently very hot.. even by Indian standards :-)

April 19th, 2012