Wazir Khan Mosque

Background

It was built by the Governor (or Wazir) of the Punjab, Hakim Shaikh Ilm-ud-din Ansari. The construction of the mosque commenced in 1634. A short walk away from the Lahore Fort, the mosque acquired political importance as it became the official destination for the Emperor's Friday congregational prayers.

The Wazir Khan mosque is rectangular, estimating 86.17 x 50.44m (282.7 x 165.4 feet), with the four monumental minarets (minars) characterizing the sides of the principle patio.

It is set on what has come to be known as the Royal Trail, a 1.6 kilometer stretch from Delhi Gate - one of the 13 doors of the walled city of Lahore - that confronted the seat of the Mughal realm. Mughal Emperors rode through this entryway to the Lahore Fort.

Wazir Khan Mosque has borne observer to somewhere around twelve Mughal rulers, the extraordinary time of the British Raj, the ridiculous Partition of the Indian subcontinent, and the short however momentous history of current Pakistan. The mosque was so situated in the focal point of the city that every one of the significant courses and marketplaces connected to it at right points.

Developed over a time of seven years, it was worked around an old underground burial place of the holy person Syed Mohammad Ishaq Gazrooni, otherwise called Miran Badshah, who moved from Iran in the thirteenth Century and resided in Lahore during the hour of the Turkish-Muslim Tughlaq administration.