Tomb Tavakkal Mastan
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Located in Bangalore, the capital of Karnataka, Tomb Tavakkal Mastan is the most revered Muslim shrine in the region. It was built about 350 years ago, for the burial of a Muslim saint Hazrat Shah Takval Mastan. This is a rather small building is a one-story building, painted in a bright green color. Place windows occupy the traditional Muslim architecture openwork lattice, and the entrance to the tomb is decorated with carved frieze. Inside the walls of the elegant halls cover with bright, mostly floral patterns.

The building is located in a suburban area, and most people who come regularly to pray, live nearby. Basically it is rather poor, uneducated people who do not always have enough money for a living, but among them, especially among the Hindu community, regardless of religious affiliation, has a tradition every day at 4 am to gather and go around the main building of the tomb, and then they share their food with the hungry.

It is also noteworthy that the process of the famous Hindu festival Karaga makes a stop in the tomb. According to one legend, one day during the festival, the man who carried the carrageenan (building decorated with flowers, symbolizing the goddess Draupadi), appealed to Takval Mastanu for a blessing to his burden fell from his head, as it was considered a terrible blasphemy. Sufi saint blessed him. Since then, the procession of the festival comes to the tomb, and each time the ritual blessing repeated.

Tomb Tavakkal Mastan open for pilgrims and visitors from 5 am to 11 pm, and after Friday prayers (prayers), about three o'clock in the afternoon held fairs which attract large numbers of people. It is also believed that good will, the hidden in the tomb, will come true.

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