Photograph of Masjid Sardar Jahan at Mozang, Lahore, taken by George Craddock in the 1880s and part of the Bellew Collection of Architectural Views.
Lahore reached its apogee under the Mughals, known as the Garden City and with enough architecture to rank it with other great Mughal centres like Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri.
The mosque in the photograph dates from the reign of Jahangir (1605–27). According to FS Aijazuddin, it was built by Sardar Khan, a lumberdar of the area, who died before the mosque was complete. Although it has lost it side wings, the mosque survives.
Lahore reached its apogee under the Mughals, known as the Garden City and with enough architecture to rank it with other great Mughal centres like Delhi, Agra and Fatehpur Sikri.
The mosque in the photograph dates from the reign of Jahangir (1605–27). According to FS Aijazuddin, it was built by Sardar Khan, a lumberdar of the area, who died before the mosque was complete. Although it has lost it side wings, the mosque survives.
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