patlini, that was true before 1947 when the partition of the primarily Hindu parts into India and the primarily Islamic parts into Pakistan happened. Since then there are not very many mosques in India. I might have seen one or two in travelling between or in most of the major urban areas. Here is a list of what it purported to be all 16 mosques in India(a trivial number for a country of 1 billion population) including two mozques in Delhi(which don't match):
Jama Masjid India Delhi 1656
Mecca Masjid India Hyderabad 1694
Moti Masjid India Delhi 1660
Sidi Saiyyed mosque India Ahmedabad 1573
Mubarak Mosque India Qadian 1883
Hazratbal Shrine India Srinagar
Jama Masjid India Srinagar 1400
Cheraman Juma Masjid India Kodungallur 629 oldest mosque of India, second oldest Juma Masjid of the world.
Malik Dinar Mosque India Kodungalloor
Jama Masjid India Kalbadevi (Mumbai) 1802
Haji Ali Dargah India Worli (Mumbai) 1631
Babri Mosque India Ayodhya 1528 – destroyed on December, 6th 1992
Sir Syed Masjid India Aligarh
Masjid-ul-Jamiah India Tamilnadu
Adina Mosque India Firozabad (West Bengal) 1373
Cheraman Juma Masjid India Kerala 629
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