Jahangir's mausoleum in Shahdara, Lahore

Tomb of Jahangir, is the mausoleum built for the Mughal Emperor Jahangir who ruled from 1605 to 1627. The mausoleum is located near the town of Shahdara 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 colored marble. The mausoleum features prominently on the Pakistan Rupees 1,000 denomination bank note. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 128 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by Shweta Sharma, 8 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 128 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by Shweta Sharma, 8 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ... The following list of Indian monarchs is one of several Wikipedia lists of incumbents. ... n ... 1605 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Events A Dutch ship makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia. ...   (Urdu: لاہور, Punjabi: لہور, pronounced ) is the capital of the province of Punjab, and is the second largest city in Pakistan. ... Shahabuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan (also spelled Shah Jehan, Shahjehan. ... External links Minarets, at the Encylopedia of the Orient Minaret Photo Gallery Categories: Stub | Mosques | Architectural elements ... A XIV Century fresco featuring Saint Sebastian Note: Fresco is the NATO reporting name of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17. ...

Layout

Jahangir's mausoleum on the old 1000 Pakistani Rupee 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. Image File history File links Pakistan_1000_Rupees_b. ... Image File history File links Pakistan_1000_Rupees_b. ...

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. On two sides of the sarcophagus the ninety-nine attributes of God are inlaid in black. Beautiful 'jalis' admit light in various patterns. Taj Mahal Location of the Taj Mahal within India The Taj Mahal (Devanagari: ताज महल, Nastaliq: تاج محل) is a mausoleum located in Agra, India. ... , stop erasing thisAgra   (Hindi: , Urdu: ), (IPA: ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh, India. ... This article is about the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...

Gallery

Main entrance Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 236 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by M Kaiser Tufail, 9 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...	The mausoleum Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 128 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by Shweta Sharma, 8 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...	Four-tiered minaret Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (768 × 1024 pixel, file size: 171 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by M Kaiser Tufail, 8 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...	Pietra dura detail Image File history File links Size of this preview: 418 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (715 × 1024 pixel, file size: 348 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by M Kaiser Tufail, 8 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...
Entrance to the tomb chamber Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (768 × 1024 pixel, file size: 233 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by M Kaiser Tufail, 8 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...	Beautifully inlaid sarcophagus Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 241 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by M Kaiser Tufail, 8 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...	"Illumined Grave of His Majesty, Asylum of Pardon: Emperor Nur-ud-din Muhammad Jahangir, 1037 AH" Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 483 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 618 pixel, file size: 139 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by M Kaiser Tufail, 8 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...	Nur Jahan's nearby mausoleum Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 145 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by M Kaiser Tufail 8 Oct 06 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...
Fresco in vestibule of tomb chamber Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (768 × 1024 pixel, file size: 372 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by Kaiser Tufail, 5 Nov, 2006 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...	Fresco in vestibule of tomb chamber Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 432 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by Kaiser Tufail, 5 Nov, 2006 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...	Fresco in vestibule of tomb chamber Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 275 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by Kaiser Tufail, 5 Nov, 2006 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...	Glazed tile kashi inlay in mausoleum verandah Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (768 × 1024 pixel, file size: 252 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Picture by Kaiser Tufail, 5 Nov, 2006 airknight_kt@yahoo. ...

See also

• Nur Jahan
• Asaf Khan
• Lahore
• Pakistan
• Mughal Empire

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External links

• Photograph of the left side of the mausoleum
• Information about the tombs
• Conservation of the mausolem