SIRI FORT - ART AND CULTURE
News: Siri
Fort: How a Khilji-era bastion against Mongol invaders became synonymous with
1982 Asian Games
What's in the news?
● Dotted
by historical ruins, nothing about Siri Fort now betrays that it was once a
bastion of the Delhi Sultanate to defend the city from the onslaught of the
Mongols.
Siri Fort:
Location:
● Located
in the heart of the capital, Siri is the
second among the seven cities of Delhi and the first to be built by a
Muslim ruler — Alauddin Khilji.
Features:
● It
was constructed during the reign of Alauddin
Khilji of the Delhi Sultanate.
● The
Fort was built 5 km to the north-east of the Qutub Minar on an old camp near
Delhi.
● The
fort was built to protect the city from
attacks of the Mongols.
● The
fort was previously considered the city's pride due to its palace of a thousand pillars known as the Hazar Sutan.
● It
belongs to the second city of medieval Delhi built around 1303.
Seven Cities of Delhi:
● Qila
Rai Pithora or Lalkot
● Siri
● Tughlaqabad
● Jahanpanah
● Firozabad
● Shergarh
● Shahjahanabad