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The Makli Nama mentions a tradition about Jam Tamachi having come here after his release from Delhi, probably in 1388 after the death of Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq, and founded the rule of the Samma dynasty. At this time he built a Jami Mosque along the khanqah of his mentor,Pir sheikh Hamad Jamali. The ruined structure of considerable dimensions now lying between the Madrassah of the Sheikh Hammad and his ruined tomb seems to be the same Mosque which must have served Makli for a long time. From the remains it appears that the tomb of Sheikh Hamad Jamali had been built in the courtyard of the mosque.
The mosque building, now without a courtyard, measures 16.9m in length and about 9m in width. It has three arched openings, one each on the north, south and east. The plinth rises in the shape of stone-courses, which carries the brick wall on all the four sides. These walls in turn, are plastered from both inner and outer sides.
The eastern façade of the mosque presents a single arched-opening within a vertical raised framed panel in the middle.There are two arched panels, one above the other on the right side of this wall, in addition to a number of square holes scattered over the whole face. The square projecting on the south-eastern corner is meant for the staircase to climb to the roof.
The interior of the mosque consists of a single longitudinal hall, divided into three compartments by two arches. The central division is the largest of the flanking ones. There is a simple mihrab, but above the cornice there are honeycombed panels on either side of the central window.
On the four corners are pronounced squinches which turn the square of the room into an octagonal base for placing a dome over it while the dome is already collapsed. The stalactites under all the four squinches give further support to them, probably to enable them carry the heavy load to be put over them.
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