This Tomb is situated at old Nizamuddin Bazar, 5 Kilometres south
east of Connaught place. Chisti Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia was born
in Bukhara and came to Delhi, where he became an important Sufi mystic.The
Tomb has a shrine of the saint who died in 1325 and the graves of Jahanara,
the daughter of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and Amir Khusru, a renowned
Urdu poet. The tomb is white in colour with an onion-shaped dome with
thin black stripes and is visited by large crowds. Around sunset, it is
worth to visit the shrine especially on Thursday, after the evening prayers,
to hear the 'qawwali' songs sung by the male followers of the Sufi Saint. |