History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c26.s2.8

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Quṭbu-d-Dîn. These were to be the façades of two extensions of the mosque; and part of the back wall of the northern extension, with the positions of the central and one of the side mihrâbs in it, still remain. Of the enlarged court, the south wall with its corridor still exists, but only a few pillars of the east corridor from which we learn that the enlarged court with its colonnades would be about 370 ft. from north to south and 230 ft. from east to west, and so enclosing the Qutb Mînâr. The tomb of Altamsh was built just to the west of the north end of the enlarged mosque.