Delhi Gate is the southern gate of one of the many gates

Gates of Delhi

The Gates of Delhi were built in Delhi, India, under different dynastic rulers in the period that could be dated from 8th century to 20th century...

 of the historic walled city of Delhi

Old Delhi

Old Delhi , walled city of Delhi, India, was founded as Shahjahanabad by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan in 1639. It remained the capital of the Mughals until the end of the Mughal dynasty....

, or Shahjahanabad. The gate links the New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

 city with the old walled city of Delhi

Delhi

Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

. At present, it stands in the middle of the road, at the end of Netaji Subhash Chandra Road, in Daryaganj

Daryaganj

Daryaganj, also called Darya Ganj , is a neighbourhood of Delhi inside the walled city of Shahjahanabad . The "darya" refers to the river Yamuna which was just outside the walled city...

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The Gate built by Emperor

Emperor

An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife or a woman who rules in her own right...

 Shah Jahan in 1638 as part of the rubble–built high fort walls that encircled the Shahajahanabad, and is similar in design and architecture to the northern gate of the walled city, the Kashmiri Gate

Kashmiri Gate (Delhi)

The Kashmiri Gate is a gate located in Delhi, it is the northern gate to the historic walled city of Delhi...

 (1853). Sunehri Masjid, stand outside the southwestern corner of Delhi Gate of Red Fort, opposite the Netaji Subhash Park. It was built by Nawab Qudsiya Begum, the wife of Mughal Emperor Ahmad Shah

Ahmad Shah Bahadur

Ahmad Shah Bahadur was born to Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah. He succeeded his father to the throne as the 15th Mughal Emperor in 1748 at the age of 22. His mother was Udhambai, . When Ahmed Shah came to power the rule of the Mughal Empire was collapsing...

 (r. 1748- 1754), in 1751.

Though there is another mosque by the same name

Sunehri Masjid

Sunehri Masjid سنهرى مسجد is an Indian mosque located near the Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib in Chandni Chowk, Delhi, once an imperial boulevard leading to the Red Fort...

 in Chandni Chowk

Chandni Chowk

Chandni Chowk , originally meaning moonlit square or market, is one of the oldest and busiest markets in Old Delhi, now in central north Delhi, India...

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Close to it, on the present Bahadur Shah Zafar Road, lies the Khooni Darwaza

Khooni Darwaza

Khooni Darwaza , also referred to as Lal Darwaza , is located near Delhi Gate, on the Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg in Delhi, India. It is one of the 13 surviving gates in Delhi...

(The Bloody Gate), where three sons of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, were executed by William Hudson

William Stephen Raikes Hodson

Brevet Major William Stephen Raikes Hodson was a British leader of irregular light cavalry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 . He was known as "Hodson of Hodson's Horse."His most notable action was to apprehend the Emperor of India...

 on September 21, 1857, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to...

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