Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh

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Jaunpur (Hindi: जौनपुर, Urdu: جون پور; Jaunpur [ dʒɔ npʊr ː ] ) is a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It lies on the Gomti River and has approximately 170,000 inhabitants ( 2011 census ). She is known mainly because of its important buildings of the Indo -Islamic architecture of the 15th century and as a center of traditional perfumery. Jaunpur is the capital of the district of the same name.

Jaunpur was founded in 1360 under the reign of Firuz Shah Tughluq (r. 1351-1388 ), the Sultan of Delhi. Already in the 11th century was a city, but a devastating flood destroyed the Gomti at this point. The city's name derives from Jauna, one of the first names of Firuz Shah's predecessor Muhammad bin Tughluq from. 1394 was Jaunpur capital of the independent Sultanate, which had in 1480 survived until the conquest by the Lodi Sultans. At the time of independence, the city developed into a major regional center. It created numerous important buildings. The 1470 built Grand Friday Mosque ( Jama Masjid ) and the older Atala Mosque with its towering, the domed roof behind obscuring portals are outstanding examples of Indo-Islamic province of style. Still from the Tughluq period dates the fort of Jaunpur. In the 16th century, the Mughal emperor Akbar built a large bridge over the Gomti.

The Friday Mosque ( Photography from the 19th century)

The bridge over the Gomti