These are some Photographs of English and Urdu Commemorative Board, Persian Headstone and Great Mughal Times Tomb of Queen Meher-Un-Nisa Titled Noor Jahan, The Empress of India And The Queen of Emperor Jahangir Located In Shahdara Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
English Commemorative Board Describes As Below :
'Noor Jahan's Tomb
Meher-Un-Nisa Titled Noor Jahan (Light Of The World) was the daughter of Mirza Ghias Baig a Noble from Iran. She was beloved Queen of Emperor Jahangir (1569-1627 AD.). Having Survived Jahangir By 18 Years, She died in 1645 AD at the age of 72 years. The Mausoleum Most Probably built in her lifetime, repose the Mortal remain of this Lady who for years ruled the ruler of Mughal India. She was only the Empress of Mughal Dynasty whose name appeared on the coinage of that period. The tomb took four years in completion at a cost of Rupees 0.3 Million. Standing on a platform 158' Square the tomb measures 134' Square and 19' × 4" high. The vaulted rooms were all covered with morble wrought with flowers of Mosaic which were removed during the Sikh Rule in Lahore. The minute painting executed in intricate pattern in the honey combed cornice of some of the rooms, are Of special interest. The inner floor was covered with morble and outer platform was covered with Sang-i-Abri. The exterior of the tomb was worked by red sandstone inlaid with floral Motifs in white, black and yellow marble. The central vaulted chamber of the tomb contains a morble platform with two cenotaphs, one of Noor Jahan and the other one said is to be her daughter Ladli Begum. The present floor of the main chamber was built by Hakim Ajmal Khan of Delhi in 1912. The original morble sarcophagus was of great workmanship and with the attributed names of Allah in same style and as there of Jahangir and Asif Khan. During the reign if Ranjit Singh the whole tomb was stripped of its costly ornamental stones a ordered to open the subterranean room while contains the graves of the Queen her daughter were two coffins buried underground a great insult to Empress of India. '
Photographs By Ali Babar
English Commemorative Board Describes As Below :
'Noor Jahan's Tomb
Meher-Un-Nisa Titled Noor Jahan (Light Of The World) was the daughter of Mirza Ghias Baig a Noble from Iran. She was beloved Queen of Emperor Jahangir (1569-1627 AD.). Having Survived Jahangir By 18 Years, She died in 1645 AD at the age of 72 years. The Mausoleum Most Probably built in her lifetime, repose the Mortal remain of this Lady who for years ruled the ruler of Mughal India. She was only the Empress of Mughal Dynasty whose name appeared on the coinage of that period. The tomb took four years in completion at a cost of Rupees 0.3 Million. Standing on a platform 158' Square the tomb measures 134' Square and 19' × 4" high. The vaulted rooms were all covered with morble wrought with flowers of Mosaic which were removed during the Sikh Rule in Lahore. The minute painting executed in intricate pattern in the honey combed cornice of some of the rooms, are Of special interest. The inner floor was covered with morble and outer platform was covered with Sang-i-Abri. The exterior of the tomb was worked by red sandstone inlaid with floral Motifs in white, black and yellow marble. The central vaulted chamber of the tomb contains a morble platform with two cenotaphs, one of Noor Jahan and the other one said is to be her daughter Ladli Begum. The present floor of the main chamber was built by Hakim Ajmal Khan of Delhi in 1912. The original morble sarcophagus was of great workmanship and with the attributed names of Allah in same style and as there of Jahangir and Asif Khan. During the reign if Ranjit Singh the whole tomb was stripped of its costly ornamental stones a ordered to open the subterranean room while contains the graves of the Queen her daughter were two coffins buried underground a great insult to Empress of India. '
Photographs By Ali Babar
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