Mecca Masjid

1.8 km · 22 min walk

The mausoleum of the Adil Shahi sultan Mohammed Adil Shah, completed around 1656, crowned by one of the largest masonry domes in the world; the encircling whispering gallery famously carries the faintest sound across its ~38 m span.

1.9 km · 24 min walk

The elegant tomb-and-mosque complex of Ibrahim Adil Shah II and his queen, set in a walled garden; its finely carved minarets and lace-like stonework earned it the name "the Taj of the Deccan".

540 m · 7 min walk

The unfinished mausoleum of Ali Adil Shah II — a striking row of twelve tall arches left roofless when work stopped in the late 17th century, floodlit and popular at dusk.

1.0 km · 13 min walk

One of the earliest and largest mosques of the Deccan, begun by Ali Adil Shah I in the 1570s, with a great arcaded prayer hall, a bulbous dome and a courtyard whose floor is marked out for hundreds of worshippers.

1.4 km · 17 min walk

One of the largest medieval cast-bronze cannons in the world — "Monarch of the Plains" — mounted on the Sherza Buruj bastion of the city ramparts, its muzzle shaped as a lion’s head swallowing an elephant.

1.2 km · 15 min walk

A tall 16th-century watchtower bastion, about 24 m high, reached by an external winding stair and topped by two long cannons; the platform gives a wide view over the old city and its domes.

220 m · 3 min walk

The ruined durbar hall and palace of Ali Adil Shah I, built around 1561, whose great central arch once opened onto the royal court; the surviving façade stands in a public garden.

260 m · 3 min walk

A hall built by Mohammed Adil Shah in the 1640s to house relics of the Prophet, fronted by a square water tank and known for its Persian-style frescoes on the upper floor.

830 m · 10 min walk

A pair of large twin-domed tombs holding the graves of the nobleman Khan Muhammad and the saint Abdul Razzaq Qadiri, on the western side of the old city.

370 m · 5 min walk

A compact two-storey mosque of the Adil Shahi period, the prayer hall raised on an upper floor above an arched base, in the heart of the old city.

730 m · 9 min walk

A group of nine domed tombs of Adil Shahi nobles on the eastern edge of the city, a quiet cluster of Deccan funerary architecture away from the main sights.

1.5 km · 18 min walk

The ASI museum set in the grounds of the Gol Gumbaz, displaying Adil Shahi sculpture, arms, china, carpets, coins and manuscripts recovered from the city’s monuments.