Bijapurs unique Andu Masjid and it's historical background ಬಿಜಾಪುರದ ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಅಂಡು ಮಸೀದಿ

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This mosque is about the best built of any in Bijapur, the surface of the stone is all but polished; the joints of the ma- sonry are so fine that the edge of a sheet of note paper could hardly be inserted into them; and the weathering of two hundred and eighty years seems hardly to have left its impress upon it. The ornament is sparingly and discreetly applied, and its general appearance is greatly enhanced by the numerous off- sets and recessed angles in the perpendicular lines. The front seems not to have been quite finished, the two large lower brackets under the cornice, one on the face of each pier, have not been inserted, but the corbels and slots have been made for them. Some of the bands of ornament about the mehrab are also unfinished. Around the inside walls is a pretty horizontal string course of pan or leaf ornament The mosque occupies the west side of the roof of the lower storey, the east side being a terrace before it. Stairways lead down through the walls from the two outer corners of the terrace. The dome is of the ribbed melon-shape variety which occurs in two or three instances in Bijapur, and the bulbs or tops of the minars are also ribbed. These minars rise from each of the four corners, and in an additional group of four above the mehrab buttress at the back of the dome. With the ribbed dome rising between them, and the little minars round the bases of the larger ones, the effect from a little distance is very pleasing. A handsome perforated para- pet, forming a lace-like fringe, adorns the crest of the building. A plain horizontal string course on the outside of the walls shews the line of meeting of the upper and lower storeys, and while the upper is very ornate, the lower is severely plain. The ground floor was evidently intended as a rest house for travellers.