CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY 
The Kabuli Bagh Mosque was among those very few buildings that were constructed in India by Babur himself. It was built to commemorate Babur’s victory over Delhi’s Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat, thus marking his conquest of India. The mosque was in a complex that contained a walled gated enclosure, a well, and a garden known as the Kabuli Bagh, recalling Babur’s homeland in Afghanistan and Central Asia. Although Babur would have liked to build a magnificent Timurid type mosque, he lacked the resources to do so. The mosque was clearly designed by an Indian architect who lacked the knowledge of Timurid architectural principles. The stucco was probably originally painted to emulate the richness of tile-work found on Timurid monuments. The whole of this complex of which only the mosque survives was erected about two km. to the north-east of Panipat.
