Nizamuddin Dargah site features

The complex unfolds through lanes and small courts rather than a single façade. The saint’s tomb is a compact white-domed chamber wrapped in marble screens and a paved court. Its dome is about six metres across.

Nearby, the Jamat Khana Masjid presents three red-sandstone bays with carved inscriptions, lotus-bud ornament and domes. Amir Khusrau’s tomb and numerous later graves compress the spaces between routes.

The visual field is constantly changing: cloth offerings, flower petals, worshippers, lamps and musicians animate architecture built over several centuries.

Nizamuddin Auliya’s tomb

Established 1325; present dome 1562. A white-domed chamber surrounded by marble screens forms the devotional centre.

Jamat Khana Masjid

1312–1325. A three-bay red-sandstone mosque preserves the earliest standing architecture of the ensemble.

Nizamuddin Baoli

1321. The protected stepwell survives from the saint’s lifetime behind the shrine.

Amir Khusrau’s tomb

1325. The poet and disciple is buried close to Nizamuddin Auliya.

Jahanara Begum’s grave

1681. The Mughal princess’s deliberately open grave lies within the sacred burial landscape.