🕌 Goripalayam Mosque

The Goripalayam Mosque is a large mosque and dargah complex, located in the Goripalayam area of Madurai City, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The mosque contains the tombs of the Sultan of Yemen, Khaja Syed Sultan Alauddin Badusha Razi, and a former Sultan of Madurai, Khaja Syed Sulthan Shamsuddin. There is also an invisible grave of Khaja Syed Sultan Habibuddin Razi, known as Ghaibi Sulthan who came to India to spread Islam. The mosque's dome is 21 metres (70 ft) in diameter, 6.1 metres (20 ft) high, and was made of a single block of stone from the Azhaga Hills. It is said that it was built by Thirumalai Nayak for his Muslim subjects.