Heritage record
Suraj Kund Temple
PunjabTempleProtected
The Sun Temple of Multan, also known as the Aditya Sun Temple, was an ancient Hindu sun temple, that was the base of a sun worshipping sect dedicated to Surya - the Hindu Sun God (also known as Aditya). The temple was noted by the medieval Arab geographer Al-Muqaddasi to have been located in the most populous part of Multan, between the city`s ivory and copper-smith bazaars. The temple was destroyed by Multan`s dynasty of new Ismaili rulers in the late 10th century, who in turn built an Ismaili congregational mosque atop the site after abandoning the city`s old Sunni congregational mosque which had been built by the city`s early Muslim rulers.
- Record ID
- 10293
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Multan
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Temple
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Protected by The Punjab Special Premises (Preservation), Ordinance, 1985 (instrument: Protected by The Punjab Special Premises (Preservation), Ordinance, 1985)
- Coordinates
- 30.13218, 71.44113 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Anonymous. (2021 (Retrieved)). Multan Sun Temple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multan_Sun_Temple.
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