Chempittapally (; ), also known as Chembitta Palli and as Chembittapally Juma Masjid, is a Sifi Friday mosque in the Mattancherry neighbourhood, in Kochangadi, Kochi, in the Ernakulam district of the state of Kerala, India. Built between 1520 and 1540, the roof of the mosque was decorated with copper tiles, hence chempitta pally. The mosque was built in the Kerala-Islamic style, and is located within a heritage area, near the MANI-listed Mattancherry Palace.
Chempittapally (; ), also known as Chembitta Palli and as Chembittapally Juma Masjid, is a Sifi Friday mosque in the Mattancherry neighbourhood, in Kochangadi, Kochi, in the Ernakulam district of the state of Kerala, India. Built between 1520 and 1540, the roof of the mosque was decorated with copper tiles, hence chempitta pally. The mosque was built in the Kerala-Islamic style, and is located within a heritage area, near the MANI-listed Mattancherry Palace.
== Overview == The compound has three gates: one in the west which opens toward Panayapilly, the second in the south which opens toward Goldenmukku and Kochangadi, and the main gate in the eastern side of compound, which opens toward Angadi, which in turn leads the way to Jew Street and Mattancherry Bazaar towards the north and to Chullickal towards the south. The graveyard near the gate towards the south houses a few old and important gravestones.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).