Purana Qila — The Old Fort & the National Zoological Park
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Purana Qila — The Old Fort & the National Zoological Park

Purana Qila (Old Fort — the massive 16th-century fortress built by the Afghan king Sher Shah Suri (1538-1545) on the site believed to be the mythological city of Indraprastha (the Pandava capital from the Mahabharata), subsequently modified by Mughal Emperor Humayun): the fort (surrounded by a large moat, with three massive gateways — the Bara Darwaza (Great Gate), the Humayun Darwaza, and the Talaqi Darwaza (Forbidden Gate) — and the Qila-i-Kuhna Mosque (Sher Shah's private mosque, 1541, one of the finest examples of the Sur dynasty architectural style) is one of the most dramatically situated fortresses in Delhi, with the National Zoological Park (the Delhi Zoo) adjacent on the west.

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