Heritage record
Choa Gujjar Bridge (Sufaid Mughal Bridge)
Khyber PakhtunkhwaBridgeProtected
A Mughal period bridge, measuring 75 m long and 5.80 m wide, built of Waziri bricks laid in lime mortar. The bridge has five cylindrical pillars of 8 m height and surmounted with melon type domes, plastered with lime mortar. Below the bridge, 12 arched ways, allowing the River Bara water current, constructed in Shah Jahan period, of burnt bricks by using corbelling technique, in a good state of preservation.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 3478
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Peshawar
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Bridge
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 33.99586, 71.62623 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Azeem, Abdul. (2020). Preliminary Report on Survey of Heritage Sites and Monuments along the Grand Trunk Road from Peshawar to Lahore. Federal Department of Archaeology & Museums, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad.
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