Bhong Mosque

The late Rais Ghazi Mohammad, the landowner of an enormous bequest, started this undertaking in 1932 in Bhong town, the most significant of the dispersed towns on his huge property. The mosque was to be the most radiant structure in his royal residence compound which likewise incorporated a more modest mosque, a madrasa and spaces for understudies. Crafted by experts accumulated from everywhere Pakistan and India (ace bricklayers and skilled workers from Rajasthan, calligraphers and painters from Karachi), the compound was planned and built over a time of almost 50 years.

 Comprehensively varied in their utilization of sources, the manufacturers acquired complex components from neighboring Lahore, just as Iran, Spain and Turkey, and joined them with Western frontier components of the 1940s. Materials and artworks utilized reach from the conventional (teak, ivory, marble, hued glass, onyx, frosted tile work, fresco, reflect work, overlaid lattice, ceramic, calligraphic work and trim) to the cutting edge and manufactured (marbleised modern tile, fake stone confronting, terrazzo, shaded concrete tile and created iron). Just conventional materials were utilized in the mosque insides. In the expressions of the jury: Bhong cherishes and embodies the famous desire for Pakistan with all its life, pride, pressure and opinion. Its utilization, and abuse, of signs and images communicates suitable developing agonies of an engineering experiencing significant change.