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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty-Two: Adding meaning to scenic vistas > The Great Mosque of Fatehpur Sikri, India, 2008
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26-MAR-2008

The Great Mosque of Fatehpur Sikri, India, 2008


A 175-foot high gateway -- the largest in Asia -- dominates a seven-mile long wall that encloses the Jami Masid, the great open mosque of Fatehpur Sikri, the capital of the Mughal Empire from 1571 to 1585. The city suffered a water shortage and was abandoned. To give this vista its sense of scale, I waited for people to move into the plaza. It took some time – no shoes are allowed here, and the stones of the ancient courtyard were scorched by the afternoon sun. Eventually two people, one of them with shoes in hand, made the trek through the pigeons across the hot stones. Their abstracted figures make the huge gate seem even larger.

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Phil Douglis03-Apr-2020 05:10
Thanks, Guest, for stopping at this image, which is timeless. I first posted this image here twelve years ago, and you the first person to comment on it since my friend Tim May talked about the link between the massive building and the small child.
Guest 01-Apr-2020 07:52
Beautiful
Phil Douglis04-May-2008 20:28
It is such a small thing, Tim. Yet so important to overall coherence. The diagonal slope of the huge building incongruously echoes the diagonal thrust of the boy's right leg, large vs. small, yet one and the same.
Tim May04-May-2008 19:54
I notice the how the diagonal of the building roof echos down to the angle and step of the boy.
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