2011 in review For Pakistani Pictures (Pakpics)
January 1, 2012The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
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MARD-E-KOHISTANI
December 18, 2011
Sunrise Marala Sialkot
December 18, 2011
Reflecting Shangri-La :)
December 18, 2011
Butterfly
December 18, 2011
What the hell are you lookin at?
December 18, 2011
UCH SHAREEF, PAKISTAN
December 18, 2011
Beauty of Autumn
December 18, 2011
Tomato Splash
December 18, 2011
Gardens of Jehangir’s Tomb in Lahore, Pakistan – January 2011
December 18, 2011
Gardens of Jehangir’s Tomb in Lahore, Pakistan – January 2011, originally uploaded by SaffyH – Uploading Dorset Photo’s.
Tomb of Jahangir, (Urdu: جهانگير کا مقبرہ) is the mausoleum built for the Mughal Emperor Jahangir who ruled from 1605 to 1627. The mausoleum is located near the town of Shahdara Bagh in Lahore, Pakistan. His son Shah Jahan built the mausoleum 10 years after his father’s death. It is sited in an attractive walled garden. It has four 30 meter high minarets. The interior is embellished with frescoes and pietra dura inlay and coloured marble. The mausoleum features prominently on the Pakistan Rupees 1,000 denomination bank note.
The entrance to the mausoleum is through two massive gateways of stone and masonry opposite each other (to the north and south) which lead to a square enclosure known as the Akbari Serai. This enclosure leads to another one, on the western side, giving full view of the garden in front of the mausoleum, which is traversed by four-bricked canals proceeding from the centre, and in which many fountains were placed which are now in ruins. The corridor around the mausoleum is adorned with a most elegant mosaic, representing flowers and Quranic verses.The interior of the mausoleum is an elevated sarcophagus of white marble, the sides of which are wrought with flowers of mosaic in the same elegant style as the tombs in the Taj Mahal at Agra, India. On two sides of the sarcophagus the ninety-nine attributes of God are inlaid in black. Beautiful ‘jalis’ admit light in various patterns.
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