Creighton, Henry: The ruins of Gour: described, and represented in eighteen views (London, 1817)

No. V.

THE SUNA MASJID, or GOLDEN MOSQUE.

This is the best and the largest Building remaining. Its
outward dimensions are one hundred and seventy feet long
by seventy-six feet broad, and twenty feet high, (exclusive
of the domes, which rise ten feet above the roof), and the
walls are eight feet thick. The entire length of that side
represented in the view, and which may be called the front
of the edifice, is formed of a beautifully sculptured dark
grey stone, approaching to black, of the hornblende species;
and contains eleven open arches, each fourteen feet high,
eight feet through, and eight feet and a half wide, by which
you may pass to the interior. Within these arches are eleven
others, forming with them an aisle, covered by eleven domes.
In the back wall, opposite each archway, was a stone niche
highly ornamented; and at one end a gallery of sculp-
tured hornblende. Twenty stone pillars, in two rows, divide
the area within the arches into three other aisles, covered
with thirty-three domes; so that there are in all four aisles
covered by forty-four domes. The situation of this ruin is
to the north of the fort, within a spacious court, formed by
a stone wall, with three gateways.

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