In Pakistan, a country saddled with a problematic reputation, Lahore combines art and history to turn a new page.
Shah Jahan, the third son of Jahangir ... Aurangzeb did spend money on one extravagant building, the world’s largest mosque at the time – the Badashi Mosque in Lahore. As Aurangzeb was ...
Shah Jahan appointed Ustad Ahmad Lahori to lead ... The Taj Mahal complex includes a mausoleum, a main gateway, a red sandstone mosque, a jawab (which translates to “answer,” and looks just ...
That makes the “ waqf boards” that control them (on Allah’s behalf, they say) count collectively as India’s third-biggest ...
Shah Jahan’s daughter and Emperor Aurangzeb’s elder sister also lies buried inside the tomb complex. Some of the other structures inside the mausoleum complex are the Jama’at- Khana Masjid ...
History often highlights male rulers, but India’s architectural landscape holds remarkable monuments built by powerful women, ...