Heritage record
Shah Ji Ki Dheri
Khyber PakhtunkhwaStupa & MonasteryProtected
A Buddhist complex, spread over 4800 sq.m. This site was excavated during the British Period. It was a very important Buddhist site where a magnificent stupa was built by Kanishka housing the begging bowl of the Buddha.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 1809
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Peshawar
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Stupa & Monastery
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.00000, 71.60000 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Ali, Ihsan. (2003). Early Settlements, Irrigation & Trade Routes in Peshawar Plain. Frontier Archaeology, Vol I.
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