Tipu Sultan Mosque, Mosque in Dharamtalla Street, Kolkata, India

The Tipu Sultan Mosque, officially the Tipu Sultan Shahi Mosque, stands at 185 Dharmatala Street with a pale cream facade pierced by arched openings. Two tall slender minarets flank it, each crowned by a green onion dome and finial, and a row of smaller green domes runs along the roofline between them. A taller tower with a green dome rises above the central section, behind a row of covered stalls.

Prince Ghulam Mohammed commissioned the building in 1842 to honor the memory of his father, who had ruled in the Kingdom of Mysore. In the years following 1980, repairs became necessary after construction work on the metro led to damage in the foundation.

The mosque is also called the Tipu Sultan Masjid, and it was formerly known as the Dharmatala Mosque after its street. Its affairs are run by the Tipu Sultan Shahi Masjid Protection and Welfare Committee, founded in the late 1980s by Seraj Mubarki and Mohammad Sharfuddin, which raised ₹21,501 for the 2004 tsunami fund.

Those wishing to enter the interior should remove their shoes and make sure shoulders and knees are covered. Main prayer times fall in the early morning and afternoon, with fewer visitors arriving outside these hours.

The mosque was damaged in the early 1980s by construction of the Kolkata Metro in the Esplanade area; the Tipu Sultan Shahi Masjid Protection and Welfare Committee, founded in the late 1980s by Seraj Mubarki and Mohammad Sharfuddin, negotiated the demolition and rebuilding of the damaged section. The committee still takes part in the mosque's daily affairs.