The Shaking Minarets are situated roughly a
kilometer from the Ahmedabad city railway station in the Sidi Bashir
mosque, these minarets are the Indian version of the leaning tower
of Pisa. The mosque and its minarets were built in 1461 and was
likely built by an architect Malik Sarang, a nobleman in the court
of Sultan Mahmud Shah Begada. These towers were however not supposed
to shake and were not noticed until by the European Sanskrit
scholar, Monier M Williams in the 19th century. Monier realized that
both the minarets shake when they are pushed or when a gush of wind
touches it.
Each minaret is three stories tall and have been delicately carved
with stone balconies around each stories These towers are
approximately 70 meter high and the fun fact of these minarets it
that if one of the two minarets is shaken the other minaret also
shake after couple of seconds, although the amazing fact is that
both the ground between the minarets does not shake. This place is
also called the Monar-e-Jonban by the locals of the city.
