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Badshahi Mosque

The Badshahi Mosque is one of the few remarkable monuments built during the long reign of Emperor Aurangzeb from 1658 to 1707. It is currently the fifth largest mosque in the world and from 1673 to 1986 when it was built, it was irrationally the largest mosque in the world. In Islamabad. Although it was built during the period of relative decline at the end of the Mughal period, its beauty, elegance and scale are examples of Mughal cultural success like no other monument in Lahore. There is also a museum.

Construction of the mosque began in 1671 on the instructions of Muzaffar Hussain, Aurangzeb's brother-in-law and the governor of Lahore. Prophet. It was originally designed to protect one side of the hair. It greatly affects the Jama Masjid in Delhi, which was built by Aurangzeb's father, Shah Jahan. The project of Badshahi Masjid is basically a square measuring 170 meters on each side. Since the northern end of the mosque was built on the banks of the Ravi River, it was not possible to install the north gate as used in the Jama Masjid, and the South Gate was not built to maintain the overall balance. Outside this mosque is the shrine of our Eastern poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal.

The prominence of the mosque in the royal vision was such that it was built just a few hundred meters west of Lahore, which is located on the Minar Pakistan and on one side of the royal fort. A special gate facing the mosque was added to the fort and named the Universal Gate. The space in between - the future Hazara Bagh Bagh - was used as a parade ground where Aurangzeb would inspect his troops and courtiers. Hazori Bagh is at a lower level than the mosque since it was later built on a six-meter stretch to help prevent flooding.

The mosque did not fare well during the rule of Ranjit Singh, the Maharaja of the Sikh Empire. When Ranjit Singh took control of Lahore in 1799 the mosque's courtyard was used as a stable and the hujras (cells) around the perimeter were occupied by his soldiers. Ranjit Singh himself used the adjacent Hazuri Bagh as his official royal court. When William Moorcroft of England visited Lahore in 1820, he recorded that the mosque as being used as an exercise ground for the Sipahi infantry. Twenty years later, a moderate earthquake struck lahore and collapsed the delicate marble turrets at the tops of each minaret. The open turrets were used as gun emplacements a year later when Ranjit Singh's son, Sher Singh, occupied the mosque to bombard Lahore Fort during the Sikh civil war.

After the British took control of Lahore in 1846 they continued to use Badshahi Mosque as a military garrison. It was not until 1852 that the British established the Badshahi Mosque Authority to oversee the restoration of the mosque so that it could be returned to Muslims as a place of worship. Although repairs were carried out, it was not until 1939 that extensive repairs began under the oversight of architect Nawab Zen Yar Jang Bahadur. The repairs continued until 1960 and were completed at a cost of 4.8 million rupees۔

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