Jod Gumbaz

About 115 meters to the east of the Mecca gate are twin domes, which on account of their close proximity and likeness to each other are called Jod Gumbaz. The floors of both the tombs are at a very considerable elevation above the surrounding ground level. This is due to the vaults, containing the graves, being built upon the ground rather than beneath its surface, as is the case in most tombs. Karim-ud-Din's Mosque: About 180 meters to the southwest of Anand Mahal stands a curious structure which gives the impression of an old and dilapidated Hindu temple. This is Karim-ud-Din's mosque, which is the earliest dated mosque in Bijapur. This Karim-ud-Din seems to have become the Governor of Bijapur in the early years of the fourteenth century under the Delhi Sultans. A Kannada inscription upon the face of a pillar inside the mosque gives A.D. 1320 as the year of construction by one Revayya, an architect of Salotgi, under orders of Karim-ud-Din. This building is a rectangular enclosure with a handsome vestibule in front, the portico of which spreading into the wings fills the front of the mosque. The style of architecture belongs to the oldest Hindu buildings in the Deccan, massive slabs of granite substance. It is also said that originally it was an agrahara, Hindu college which was converted into a mosque.