Shah Rukn-e-Alam

Sheik Rukn-ud-Din Abul Fath (1251-1335) generally known by the title Rukn-e-Alam (Pillar of the World) was among the prominent Sufi holy people from Multan, Pakistan. He was the child of another Sufi sage, Pir Sadar-Al-Din Arif, and was the grandson and replacement of Shaikh Baha-Ud-Din Zakariya.

Shaikh Rukn-e-Alam (Rukn-al-Din) was covered in the sepulcher of his granddad, as per his own will. After at some point, in any case, his final resting place was moved to the current catacomb, which was worked somewhere in the range of 1320 and 1324. The holy person is as yet venerated today and his burial chamber is the focal point of the journey of north of 100,000 pioneers from everywhere South Asia who visit and recognize his memory.

The burial chamber building is an octagon, 51 feet 9 creeps in distance across inside, with dividers 41 feet 4 inches high and 13 feet 3 inches thick, upheld at the points by inclining towers. Over this is a more modest octagon 25 feet 8 inches, on the outside side, and 26 feet 10 inches high, leaving a restricted entry all round the highest point of the lower story for the Moazzan, or public guest to petitions. The entire is overcomed by a hemispherical arch of 58 feet outside distance across. The complete tallness of the structure, including a plinth of 3 feet, is 100 feet. As it remains on the strategic position, the complete stature over the street level is 150 feet. Other than its strict significance, the sepulcher is likewise of impressive archeological worth as its vault is rumored to be the second biggest on the planet, after Gol Gumbaz of Bijapur, India.

The sepulcher is constructed altogether of red block, limited with light emissions wood, which have now become dark after such countless hundreds of years. The entire of the outside is intricately ornamented with coated tile boards, string-courses and parapets. Colors utilized are dull blue, purplish blue, and white, appeared differently in relation to the dark red of the finely cleaned blocks. The burial chamber was said to have been worked by Ghias-ud-Din Tughlak for himself during the times of his governorship of Depalpur, somewhere in the range of 1320 and 1324 AD, however was given by his child, Muhammad receptacle Tughluq to the descendents of Shah Rukn-e-Alam for the last's internment in 1330.

During the 1970s the catacomb was entirely fixed and remodeled by the Auqaf Department of the Punjab Government. The whole sparkling coated inside is the consequence of new tiles and brickwork done by the Kashigars of Multan.