Qadam-i-Rasool
Cuttack City, Cuttack4.5
About this place
A walled compound in Dargah Bazar, Cuttack, enshrining a circular slab said to bear the footprint of Prophet Muhammad (Qadam-i-Rasool literally 'foot of the Messenger'). The relic was brought from Bijapur in the late 17th century and the enshrining structure was built in 1758 by Nawab Shujauddin Khan. Cuttack's most important Muslim shrine, it draws visitors of all faiths and is the focus of the annual Fateha-i-Yazdaham procession during Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi. The compound holds three mosques, a Naubat Khana drum house, and elegantly proportioned domes in late-Mughal style.
Houses one of the most venerated Islamic relics in eastern India; focal point of Cuttack's composite Hindu-Muslim culture.
1758 CE · Late Mughal / Indo-Islamic