Sarkhej Roza History in Ahmedabad
May 19, 2021
Ahmedabad houses a lot of historical monuments, mostly built under the Mughal rule in the city. Sarkhej Roza is one of them. It is a mosque and tomb complex located in the village of Makarba, 7 km southwest of Ahmedabad. The complex is known as “Acropolis of Ahmedabad”, due to 20th-century architect Le Corbusier’s famous comparison of this mosque’s design to the Acropolis of Athens.
Although there are many ‘Rozas’ across Gujarat, the Sarkhej Roza is the most honored. Sarkhej was once a prominent center of Sufi culture in the country, where influential Sufi saint Shaikh Ahmed Ganj Baksh lived. It was on the saint’s suggestion that Sultan Ahmed Shah set up his capital on the banks of the Sabarmati, a few miles away from Sarkhej.