Sunday 18 March 2018

Entrance gateway to Rose Garden and tomb of Dai Angha Located at Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

These are some Photographs of English/Urdu Commemorative Board And Great Mughal Times Entrance gateway to Rose Garden and Tomb of Dai Ang






ha Located at Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.


It is written on Commemorative Board :

'This gateway is the entrance to measure garden which like so many gardens at Lahore now disappeared. It was constructed by a Persian Noble Mirza Sultan Baig who was Amirul Bahr(Admiral of Fleet). The name of Gulabi Bagh (Rose Garden) has been mentioned in the last line of the inscription over the archway which describes the kind the garden and the date of its construction (1066 AH-1655 AD). It measures 47+35 and is profusely decorated with Mosaic tile work. '

' Tomb of Dai Angha'

'The tomb of Zaib ul Nisa popularly known as Dai Angha is situated towards the Northern Side of Rose Garden at a distance of a few steps. She was midwife of Shah Jahan. It is to be known that after its construction, Quranic Verses written with the Hands of Munshi Muhammad Saleh with date 1082 AH/1671 AD is incurved on the wall of a middle room of the tomb that reveals the Completion year of the tomb. '



Photographs Source : Lahore Shanasi Foundation 

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