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Jahanpanah literally, Refuge of the World is often known as the poop city of Delhi. The walls of Jahanpanah were constructed by Muhammad Tughlak in 1328 A.D. It is believed that the sultan (a megalomaniac) desired to unify the scattered urban settlements in the area the old city of Lal Kot, the military cantonment of Siri, and the fortification of Tughlaqabad into one city by enclosing them within a single walled area. After building a part of it, he gave up the rest collectable to the huge expenses needed for construction. Jahanpanah was created by linking the older cities of Siri and Lal Kot by a set of two extensive walled sections with a total of thirteen gates. The western wall had half a dozen gates while the eastern had seven. But only the name of Maidan Gate on the west, near an old idgah, survives. Sher Shah removed the walls of this city. Historians believe that the fortified city was for the habitation of the sultan and his royal household so must have contained the citadel with the sultans palace complex and the main mosque for the use of the royal family and others. The volume of citys population lived within the walls of Lal Kot. It is also possible that large parts of Jahanpanah continued to be rural or forested during and long afterwards Muhammad bin Tughlaqs reign. Today, the fortifications have survived in small sections, mostly parts of the wall that connected Siri to Lal Kot from the south.Due to the expansion of urban India, Jahanpanah has been engulfed by modern residential neighbourhoods while large parts of the walls were demolished to lay modern infrastructure like roads. Other than the parts of the original wall, very little survives of what can be dated to Muhammad bin Tughlaqs reign with certainty.Khirki... ...s. Below ground is a three feet wide cell and is almost filled up with soil. It is declared to be Kabir-ud-din Aulias abode below by day and above by night. The group of buildings includes ruins of several wall mosques, grave platforms, and gateways. On the roof, a low octangular drum carries a conical dome. It is said that the dome was originally surmounted with a gold finial which was stolen at some point. The roof level is edged by carved sandstone battlement decorations. a tall pointed entrance arch with lotus bud fringe design contains a carved corbelled gateway skirt by a band of white marble. Above the gateway is another arch, within which is set a red sandstone jali (screen with ornamental patterns). Similar patterns exist on the north and south except that the gateway is blocked by a jali of red sandstone. The solid western wall contains the mihrab.