Pictures from cities | Lahore

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Jahangir's Mausoleum, Lahore, Pakistan

 

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Lahore fort

The sun set on the Sikh rule, the samadhi of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh stands mute testimony to all the treachery that led to downfall.The Samadhi of Ranjit Singh is the mausoleum of the Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Located in Lahore, Pakistan, near the Lahore Fort and Badshahi Mosque, the mausoleum was begun by his son Kharak Singh on the spot where he was cremated, and was completed by Dalip Singh in 1848. The tomb is a splendid example of Sikh architecture, with gilded fluted domes and cupolas and an ornate balustrade round the top. Ranjit Singh's ashes are contained in a marble urn in the shape of a lotus, sheltered under a marble pavilion inlaid with pietra dura, in the centre of the tomb. Other tiny urns contain the ashes of his four wives and seven concubines who threw themselves on his funeral pyre. These urns were removed from the marble pavilion and were replaced by a simple slab around 1999. This desecration of the mausoleum was part of the preparations for the Khalsa Tricentenary and the visit of Sikh dignitaries from India.The Samadhi was damaged by the earthquake in October 2005.

Two small monuments to the west of the main mausoleum commemorate Ranjit Singh's son Kharak Singh and grandson Nau Nihal Singh, and their wives.

GATE OF THE LIONS in Lahore

 

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Race Course Park, Lahore

 

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Race Course Park (at night)

 

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The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسج&#1583 or the 'King's Mosque' in Lahore, commissioned by the sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673, is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. Epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era, it is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction.

Capable of accommodating 5,000 worshippers in its main prayer hall and a further 95,000 in its courtyard and porticoes, it remained the largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (a period of 313 years), when overtaken in size by the completion of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it remains the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.

To appreciate its large size, the four minarets of the Badshahi Mosque are 13.9 ft (4.2 m) taller than those of the Taj Mahal and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can fit inside the 278,784 sq ft (25,899.9 m2) courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque, which is the largest mosque courtyard in the world.

In 1993, the Government of Pakistan recommended the inclusion of the Badshahi Mosque as a World Heritage Site in UNESCO's World Heritage List, where it has been included in Pakistan's Tentative List for possible nomination to the World Heritage List by UNESCO.

Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. The man who built this beautiful Masjid.

 

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Quaid-e-Azam Library and Jinnah Garden (named after the founder of Pakistan).

 

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More of Quaid-e-Azam Library and Jinnah Garden in Lahore, Pakistan

Quaid-e-Azam Library in the center of the photo.

 

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Lahore is indeed beautiful. Many more things were there in the past until it was destroyed to create crappy concrete buildings. Lets hope we can preserve the existing stuff in the future....

 

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The Enterprise in Lahore

 

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Lahore Ring Road

 

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Lahore Ring Road

 

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P-1 Niazi interchange

P-10 GT road/Quaid-e-Azam Interchange

P-4 Saggian Interchange

 

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Some more of Lahore Ring Road

 

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Canal Road, Lahore

 

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Peeru's Cafe Lahore

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Sukh Chayn Gardens Housing Estate is a Gated Community in the suburbs of Lahore, Pakistan. It is a joint venture between the governments of Pakistan and China.

Replica of Blue Mosque in Sukh Chayn Gardens (being constructed with the help of Turkish brothers)