Baba Umer Dargah

Solapur district, India

The Baba Umer Dargah is a famous Islamic shrine in Solapur, India. It is known for a baby throwing ritual, in which infants are dropped from a 15-meter platform onto a cloth held by both Muslim and Hindu men. This practice is five to seven hundred years old; it is said to originate when a pir "advised people whose babies were dying to build a shrine and drop the ailing infants from the roof to show their trust in the almighty" and after doing so, "the babies were miraculously cradled to safety in a hammock-like sheet that appeared in midair."

Google Maps ↗ Wikipedia ↗

Mosque data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other mosques in India

Aali Mosque Jammu and Kashmir, India Achut Bibi's Mosque and Tomb Ahmedabad City Taluka, India Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra Ajmer district, India Adina Mosque West Bengal, India Afzal Gunj Masjid Telangana, India Ahmad Shah's Mosque Ahmedabad City Taluka, India Aizwal Mosque Aizawl, India Akbarabadi Mosque Delhi, India