SHAKING MINARETS
Part Of : Sidi Bashir Mosque.
Unique Feature : On Shaking One Minaret, Other Also Shakes.
The Shaking Minarets are two minarets located at the Sidi
Bashir mosque, near the Sarangpur Gate and about 1.5 kilometers south of
railway station of Ahmedabad
city, in the state of Gujarat. They are uniquely
designed in a way that when one minaret is shaken the other one shakes
too.
UNIQUE FEATURE
If one of the minaret is shaken the other vibrates too, as if following
the principal of resonance. In an experiment, a small ball was hung to one
of the minarets and when the other minaret was shaken, the hanging ball on
the other exhibited swinging effect. 
The famous shaking minarets aroused so much curiosity in British rulers
that one of the minaret was dismantled by them, in vain, to fathom the
secret of its construction and the mystery behind the swinging effect.
THE ARCHITECTURE
This is a unique historical architectural marvel in the state of
Gujarat. Each minaret is three storeyed with
delicately carved balanced stone balconies, which girdle the minarets of
each storey. These minarets are about 21.34 meters high.
MYSTERY ABOUT ITS ORIGINAL BUILDER
Though popularly named after Sidi Bashir, a favourite slave of Sultan
Ahmad Shah I, it is perhaps likely, the builder was Malik Sarang, a noble
of Sultan Mahmud Shah Begada's court in whose name the adjoining locality
of Sarangpur was built. Malik Sarang was a Rajput Hindu converted to Islam
under the influence of Sultan and later became the Governor of
Ahmedabad , in
1521 AD, during the reign of Muzaffar Shah II (1511-1526 AD). Popularly
these are called as Siddi Bashir Minars.
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