THE MOSQUE MASAKALIS

 

SWIRL OF FLUTTERING BIRDS IN THE COURTYARD
(SOURCE: GOOGLE)



Jama Masjid is the principal mosque of Old Delhi in India. The mosque's compound is unbelievably serene. The courtyard can hold upto twenty five thousand worshippers and also enormous flock of the fluttering pigeons. The pigeons peel off the big dome of Jama Masjid each time one calls out Allah. Any loud sound disturbs these birds and they then circle the courtyard like a single creature enloosened in a swirl of flutters and artificial winds before it settle again upon the Gumbaz. The birds are fed handsome amount of seeds in the central courtyard of the mosque by the worshippers. Only these lovely birds, who are being fed in the compound can take one's calm for granted and break it with one synchronized motion of spreading their wings and taking flight. The fluttering of their wings is like a symphony, a Sufi offering to Allah, their protector.

A CASCADE OF PIGEONS SWIRLING

AROUND THE JAMA MASJID, SOURCE: YOUTUBE