Mahmud Khilji killed his father at the age of 55 and became the king of Mandu. The mosque is built in Moghul style of architecture and been believed to have been built during the reign of Hoshang Shah and completed during the reign of Mahmud Khilji in 1454. However, it was under his reign that the Malwa Sultanate reached its greatest height. Mohammed Khalji established the Khalji dynasty of Malwa (1436-1531) and went on to rule for the next 33 years. When Timur captured Delhi in 1401, the Afghan Dilawar Khan, governor of Malwa, set up his own little kingdom and the Ghuri dynasty was established, His son, Hoshang Shah, shifted the capital from Dhar to Mandu and raised it to its greatest splendour.
There are annual shows organized in the monument by the Tourism Department of Madhya Pradesh. Along with the other monuments, the average number of visitors a day to the monument stands at 4,000 to 5,000 as of 2020. Mandu is one of the prime tourist destinations of the state of Madhya Pradesh. In modern times, the Group of Monuments at Mandu is maintained and administered by the Bhopal circle of the Archaeological Survey of India. The inscriptions on the eastern doorway to the porch indicates that the mosque was modeled on the basis of Mosque of Damascus. The entire area of the mosque is 7,725 square metres (83,150 sq ft), built on an elevated platform 4.6 m (15 ft). It has a prayer hall and decorated pillars in the masjid. The Masjid has three large domes, a courtyard, 54 smaller domes and colonnade of pillared halls. Built in Mughal style of architecture, the mosque has been believed to have been built during the reign of Hoshang Shah and completed during the reign of Mahmud Khilji in 1454. Jama Masjid (also called Jami Masjid) is a historic mosque in Mandu in the Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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