Wife of the emperor Muhammad Shah and the mother of a successor- Ahmad Shah, laid out a beautiful garden complex adjoining the western bank of Yamuna. A palace cum summer house, dotted with pavilions and a mosque were set amidst rolling greens of rose and fruit gardens and murmuring waterfalls.
After the death of Aurangzeb, the Mughal Empire had started crumbling, where the most prominent nobles had taken over their territory and started ruling all by themselves not recognizing the central authority which was still Mughal. Muhammad Shah Rangeela came to the throne, after frequent successions by recent predecessors who had been unapologetic of their responsibility of the Empire. Qudsia Begum and Nawab Javed Khan became the rulers of the Empire. While Ahmad Shah was a puppet king engaged in petty pleasures, he had slowly retired to a large pleasure garden that he had built. Qudsia Begum single handedly would take the responsibility of the Empire and

Presently, the greenery of the area most of which is taken over by the development authorities and established a home to beautiful birds, residence for squirrels and an exotic splash of lush foliage, which overlooks the Inter State Bus Terminus. Of all the original structures, only a few remain which are the main western gateway, a mosque, and a garden pavilion. They carry the scars of the revolt of 1857 war. The walls of the pavilion and structures scream out of the negligence of the later Mughals to be able to hold on to their power.

A walk in the garden pavilion will let you stumble upon the handsomely built mosque, which sits on the raised platform and built of think bricks, introduced by the British, and were called Lakhori Bricks. The mosque is characterized by the three bulbous domes, topped with sandstone lotus finials and surmounted upon an equal number of bays that are punctured with arched openings.
The mosque is adjacent to the busy road, which was once over the course of the river Yamuna. A colonial era building, it was built around the earlier Mughal pavilion, and it was once said that the original stable house for the horses of Qudsia Begum.