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Description
Property Name: Delhi Darwaja
Inventory No: 91-79-3
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2009-07-22
Country (State party): India
Province: Gujarat
Town: Ahmedabad
Geographic coordinates: 23° 2′ 16.53″ N
72° 35′ 16.64″ E
Historic Period: 15th century, 1st half
Year of Construction:
Style: Bahmanid
Original Use: Gate
Current Use: Gate
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Delhi Darwaja, built by Sultan Ahmed Shah- the founder of the city, is the oldest and the longest gateway of Ahmedabad, forming the urban plan of the new city. Tin Darwaza, standing on the road running from east to west, is like an entrance point to the city’s main square over which the palace buildings are faced. Therefore, Tin Darwaza is not just a building symbolizing the sultanate power, but also a building which separates the palatial zone from the urban environment.
Selection Criteria
iv. to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
The terrace on the top of the gateway was formerly roofed over. But in 1877 the gateway was repaired, and the terrace thrown open. Now the area is congested market.
References
ArchNet, http://www.archnet.org
K. V. Soundara Rajan: Ahmadabad, Archeological Survey of India (New Delhi, 1980)
Le Corbusier: Ahmedabad, 1953-1960, The Le Corbusier Archive, 26 (New York and Paris, 1983)
S. B. Rajyagor, S. Tripathy and U. M. Chokshi, eds.: Ahmadabad District Gazetteer, Gujarat State Gazetteers (Ahmadabad, 1984)
G. Michell and S. Shah, eds.: Ahmadabad (Bombay, 19881R New Delhi, 2003)
E. Koch: Mughal Architecture: An Outline of its History and Development, 1526-1858 (Munich, 19911R New Delhi and New York, 2002)
C. B. Asher: Architecture of Mughal India, Cambridge History of India 1:4 (Cambridge, 1992)
J. Burgess: The Muhammadan Architecture of Ahmadabad, Archaeological survey of Western India, 7-8 (New Delhi, 1997)
Y. Pandya and B. V. Doshi: Architectural Legacies of Ahmedabad (Ahmedabad, 2002)
A. Patel: “From Province to Sultanate: TI1e Architecture of Gujarat during the 12th through the 16th Centuries,” Marg, lviii/l (2006), pp. 36-47