Poa Mecca

Hajo is a town that has religious places of different faiths, such as Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists. The Muslim place of pilgrimage in Hajo is Powa Mecca Mosque. The name of the mosque means one-quarter of Mecca, which is the holiest city for Muslims situated in Arab. It is said that by offering prayers in this mosque, devotees gain one-fourth of the good grace that they would have gotten in the real Mecca. On the top of Garurachal hill, the Powa Mecca mosque stands. This is the tomb of the pioneer of the Muslim religion in this area, Pir Ghiyasuddin Auliya. In 1657 AD, Sujauddin Muhammad Shah built this mosque. At that time Shah Jahan was the ruling Mughal emperor of India. The mosque is situated on a hill over the banks of the Brahmaputra River and is only 24 km away from Guwahati. This is a shrine where not only the Muslims but the Hindus also come to offer their prayers. The temple of Hayagriva Madhava is just on the side of the mosque. The complex also has a dargah of Pir Ghiyasuddin Auliya, a reserved seer and one of the earliest propagators of Islam in Assam.