The Shah Jahan Mosque, or Jamia Masjid of Thatta, stands in eastern Thatta, near the Makli Necropolis. The article names no architect. Shah Jahan commissioned it as thanks to the Sindhi people, who had sheltered him when he fled his father Jahangir. Persian inscriptions date construction to 1644 to 1647, the infobox gives 1647 for consecration, and an eastern addition was finished in 1659 under Aurangzeb.
It is laid out like a caravanserai, with a four-iwan plan and a courtyard of 169 by 97 feet (52 by 30 m). The article calls its red brick and tile work the most elaborate display of tile work in South Asia. It has no minarets but 93 domes, the most of any structure in Pakistan.
Aurangzeb restored it in 1692 and Murad Ali Khan Talpur did in 1812. UNESCO placed it on its tentative World Heritage list in 1993.
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