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Hiran Minar
A Mughal tower and octagonal pavilion set in a huge water tank near Sheikhupura, built by Jahangir between 1607 and 1620 as a monument to his pet antelope Mansraj.
9 km · about 20 min drive
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Jandiala Sher Khan
Punjab, Pakistan · Asia
About Jandiala Sher Khan
Jandiala Sher Khan is worth a stop: 25 minutes from Shekhupura, 9km from Hiran Minar.
Jandiala Sher Khan is in Punjab, Pakistan, with about 11,000 people. The nearest town is Shekhupura, about 14 km away.
Jandiala Sher Khan, or Jandy ala Sher Khan (Urdu: جنڈیالہ شیر خاں), is a town of Sheikhupura District in Punjab, Pakistan. It is part of Sheikhupura Tehsil and is located at 31°49'15N 73°55'10E. The town is notable for being the birthplace of famous poet Waris Shah, known as the Punjabi Shakespeare, and contains hisRead more
mausoleum.
Jandiala Sher Khan was an important provincial town in the Mughal Empire. The town was located on a floodplain and there were no nearby sources of water, requiring local residents to dig wells to irrigate their crops. During the reign of Emperor Akbar, a man of means known as Sher Khan settled here. Heeding the advice of a local dervish named Syed Ghaznavi, Sher Khan built a monumental step-well (known as a baoli) to provide easier access to the water table. Sher Khan also built a caravansary-like structure over the stairs to the well, either serving as a type of inn or providing space for merchants to sell goods to travelers along the road between Lahore and Kashmir. Immediately to the southeast of the baoli he also endowed a small mosque. The design of the step well is quintessentially Akbarian. The ground plan is conceived as a central domed chamber surrounded by eight smaller rooms, a motif known as hasht bihisht ("eight paradises"), a Mughal innovation derived from Timurid precedent. Sher Khan's endowment of the baoli was immortalized by a plaque in Persian calligraphy that used to hang on the site, but was moved to the Lahore Museum, Pakistan for safekeeping in 1971. It is the birthplace of the ex-governor of Punjab Kaliningrad Khan.
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Within an hour or so of Jandiala Sher Khan: Hiran Minar (9 km).
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Jandiala Sher Khan is in Punjab, Pakistan, about 14 km from Shekhupura.
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- Population
- 10,985
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Pakistan
- Region
- Punjab
- Timezone
- Asia/Karachi
- Coordinates
- 31.8210, 73.9181
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