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Islamic heritage

Mughal mosques, Sufi shrines, and the living faith of old cities.

Key Places

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Punjab

Badshahi Mosque

Lahore's Mughal masterpiece.

Punjab

Wazir Khan Mosque

Tilework jewel inside the old city.

Islamabad Capital Territory

Faisal Mosque

Pakistan's largest mosque, a modernist tent-form landmark at the foot of the Margalla Hills and a symbol of Islamabad.

Sindh

Mazar-e-Quaid

The white-marble mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, and Karachi's most recognisable landmark.

Punjab

Shrine of Bahauddin Zakariya

The 13th-century Sufi mausoleum that crowns Multan's old fort mound, heart of the “City of Saints”.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Mahabat Khan Mosque

A 17th-century Mughal mosque of white marble and frescoed prayer hall in the heart of Peshawar's old bazaar.

Sindh

Shah Jahan Mosque, Thatta

A 17th-century Mughal mosque famed for its tilework and remarkable acoustics, part of Thatta's UNESCO-listed heritage.

Punjab

Tomb of Jahangir & Asif Khan (Shahdara Bagh)

The Mughal emperor Jahangir's mausoleum across the Ravi from Lahore, its four minarets and pietra dura panels among the finest Mughal funerary architecture in Pakistan, alongside the neighbouring tomb of Asif Khan and the Akbari Sarai.

Punjab

Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam

A soaring 14th-century brick tomb inside Multan Fort, its blue-and-turquoise glazed tilework among the finest examples of Multani craftsmanship, and one of the earliest and grandest Tughlaq-era monuments in South Asia.

Sindh

Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar

Sindh's most visited Sufi shrine, where a golden dome rises over tiled courtyards at Sehwan Sharif and the dhamaal drums draw pilgrims from across the province every evening.

Punjab

Tomb of Allama Iqbal

The red-sandstone mausoleum of national poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, built in 1951 in the Hazuri Bagh between Lahore Fort and Badshahi Mosque, with a marble cenotaph and a ceremonial guard on permanent duty.

Punjab

Data Darbar

The largest Sufi shrine in South Asia, built around the tomb of 11th-century saint Ali Hujwiri in Lahore, its marble courtyard and minarets drawing round-the-clock devotion and an enormous annual urs.

Sindh

Shrine of Sachal Sarmast

A shrine at Daraza clad head to foot in blue and turquoise tilework, holding the tomb of the 18th-century Sufi poet whose verse is still sung across Sindh.

Punjab

Shrine of Baba Farid, Pakpattan

The 13th-century dargah of Baba Fariduddin Ganj-e-Shakar, seat of the Chishti Sufi order and resting place of Punjab's first great classical poet.

Punjab

Shrine of Mian Mir

The 17th-century shrine of the Sufi Mian Mir in Lahore, completed in 1640 on the orders of Dara Shikoh and long revered by Muslims and Sikhs.

Sindh

Abdullah Shah Ghazi Shrine

The hilltop shrine of the 8th-century Sufi Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Clifton, Karachi: a green-and-white striped dome, langar and qawwali.

Sindh

Masjid-e-Tooba

Masjid-e-Tooba, Karachi's 'Round Mosque' in DHA: a single 65-metre dome over a prayer hall with no pillars, completed in 1969 for 5,000 worshippers.

Balochistan

Tomb of Hanidan

Hinidan is located about 21 km north-west of Karachi on the right bank of Habb river.

Balochistan

Ancestral Graveyard of Jam of Lasbela

The ancestral graveyard of Jam of Lasbela, the Chief Minister of Baluchistan is situated about 6.5 km to the North of Bela Town.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Tomb of Shah Ismail Shaheed

The graves of Shah Ismail Shaheed and Syed Ahmad Barelvi in Balakot, where both fell in battle in 1831, in a walled enclosure in the town's bazaar.

Sindh

Jamia Masjid, Dadu, Khudabad

In the midst of the ruins of the old town of Khudabad stands the great massive Kalhora period (18th Century CE) Jamia Masjid.

Sindh

Tomb of Yar Muhammad Kalhoro

The tomb at Khudabad, Dadu, of Mian Yar Muhammad Kalhoro, founder of the Kalhora dynasty that ruled Sindh from 1701 to 1783.

Sindh

Tomb of Ghulam Shah Kalhoro

The domed brick tomb, with four minarets and Hala tile work, of Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro, founder of Hyderabad.

Sindh

Tomb of Ghulam Nabi Kalhoro

There are three graves inside the Kalhora Period tomb of Ghulam Nabi Kalhoro of which one is that of Ghulam Nabi and the remaining two are that of his children.

Planning Notes

Prayer times affect visiting hours, plan around Friday congregations.
Respect photography rules inside active mosques.

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