Wednesday 28 October 2020

Khalid Waleed Tomb Kabir Wala ,Punjab ,Pakistan


These are photographs of Urdu commemorative boards and ancient beautiful renovated building of Khalid Waleed located at Kabir Wala, Punjab, Pakistan. Urdu commemorative board erected by Archeology Department Punjab reads as below:


"Khalid Waleed is burried at this place. According to local tradition, he came to Multan with the squad of Sultan Mehmood Ghaznavi and died here. According to an inscription found here, this ancient building was constructed by a powerful Governor Ali Bin Karmakh during 1175 to 1186 in the time of Ghauri Dynasty. There is a walled like building of Mosque around the shrine which is the oldest mosque of the Northern areas of South Asian Sub-continent. Its one of distinguish feature is the Mehrab built with baked bricks in the western wall. Quranic Ayats are engraved in and out of the Mehrab."


Courtesy by Mr. Amjad Javaid Sahib


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1- Commemorative board