{"id":3473,"date":"2012-09-11T02:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aasims.wordpress.com\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2025-05-26T08:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:12:33","slug":"masjid-wazir-khan-lahore-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/masjid-wazir-khan-lahore-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Masjid Wazir Khan, Lahore Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Once attributed as a mole on the face of Lahore, this masjid is still unique in its kind.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Masjid Wazir Khan is famous for its extensive <a title=\"Faience\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faience\">faience<\/a>\u00a0tile work. Built in seven years, starting around 1634\u20131635 AD, during the reign of the\u00a0<a title=\"Mogul Empire\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mogul_Empire\">Mughal Emperor<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Shah Jahan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shah_Jahan\">Shah Jehan<\/a>. It was built by Hakim Shaikh Ilm-ud-din Ansari, a native of\u00a0<a title=\"Chiniot\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chiniot\">Chiniot<\/a>, who rose to be the court physician to Shah Jahan and a governor of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lahore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lahore<\/a>.<em> (from wikipedia)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had a visit to this masjid last month and was just stunned when I saw its design and artwork. For me it&#8217;s far more beautiful than the <a href=\"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/badshahimasjid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Badshahi Masjid<\/a> of Lahore. You can view the full album at the link below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/4Uv8wrub8Nxm58kf9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masjid Wazir Khan, Lahore Pakistan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/4Uv8wrub8Nxm58kf9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3475\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-09-11 at 1.39.31 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/screen-shot-2012-09-11-at-1-39-31-am.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you visited this place before? Please share your experience in comments.<\/p>\n<p>You may also interested in<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/25\/katasraj-temple-chakwal-pakistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katasraj Temple, Chakwal Pakistan;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/18\/kamrans-baradari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamran\u2019s Baradari, Lahore Pakistan;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/10\/tomb-of-khan-e-jahan-bahadur-jang-kokaltash-lahore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tomb of Khan-e-Jahan Bahadur Jang Kokaltash \u2013 Lahore<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/18\/anonymous-tomb-near-samanabad-lahore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anonymous Tomb Near Samanabad Lahore;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s08.flagcounter.com\/count\/Rko\/bg_FFFFFF\/txt_000000\/border_FFFFFF\/columns_6\/maxflags_12\/viewers_0\/labels_1\/pageviews_1\/flags_0\/\" alt=\"free counters\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once attributed as a mole on the face of Lahore, this masjid is still unique in its kind. Masjid Wazir Khan is famous for its extensive faience\u00a0tile work. Built in seven years, starting around 1634\u20131635 AD, during the reign of the\u00a0Mughal Emperor\u00a0Shah Jehan. It was built by Hakim Shaikh Ilm-ud-din&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[183,601,679,712,784],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saunterer-soul","tag-badshahi-masjid","tag-kamrans-baradari","tag-lahore","tag-majid-wazir-khan","tag-my-saunterer-soul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5658,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions\/5658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}