ABSTRACT
Robert Powell discovered this mosque in the spring of 1980, when he did his first sketches. The so-called highland type corresponds with the mosque described here in as much as the roof of the inner room is supported by one solitary column. Mosque is the place where the Islamic community congregates for worship. The interior of the mosque of Gabral Jaba, on the other hand, is thrown out of balance by its massive column, which is off centre, and the three light apertures in the western wall. In comparison to the other mosques of Swat, diere is something so singular about this particular one that it is worthy of a second look and comparison from an anthropological viewpoint. The mosque is situated in a small village on the Upper Gabral, a tributary of the Swat in the northwest of the region of Kohistan. Little is to be learnt about it in the geographical and anthropological literature.
