Congregation of devotees at Jama Masjid courtyard for iftar, in Delhi

From the archive record

As the sun sets on another Ramadan day in Old Delhi, the Jama Masjid springs to life. Nearly 360 years old and India’s biggest mosque, it has massive courtyards where hundreds gather to break their fast. Families sit around large sheets of cloth spread out on the flagstones, turning the iftar meal into a picnic. The food varies little from one group to the next: bowls of dates and sliced fruit, bottles of cold sherbet, casseroles of biryani and rich meat gravies, plates of crackers and bowls of nuts. Congregating at the Jama Masjid during Ramadan evenings has long been a family tradition. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high qualit