Ajmeri Gate

This surviving gateway in the southern wall of the walled city of Shahjahanabad opened onto the road leading toward Ajmer, from which it takes its name. Built in the seventeenth century of red sandstone and rubble, its single arched opening once controlled access to the Mughal city. Beside it stands the Ghaziuddin Khan madrasa, one of the earliest colleges of the region. Now marooned amid heavy traffic near a busy market and railway station, the gate is one of only a handful of the original city gates that remain standing.