Twenty courses of bricks have been laid, and the new prayer wall is nearly complete. Young masons work five steps apart, and a human chain brings them bricks from a fresh pile in a corner of Subhas Park. Though it is a mosque they are building, the work is slapdash. The point, as everyone here knows, is not to do it beautifully but to get it done quickly. This Friday, namaaz was offered here, as more than one person on site says proudly, “for the first time in 155 years”.

><table width='100%' border=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #0253B7;'>Digging in</td></tr><tr><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11px; '>Building work moves ahead in Old Delhi

Digging in

Building work moves ahead in Old Delhis Subhas Park, where a buried stone wall is being hailed as the lost Akbarabadi Masjid

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