Heritage record
Adam Shah Jo Takkar
SindhTombProtected
The graveyard of Adam Shah rises approximately 50m above the ground level and spread over an area of 8000 sq.m. There are three tombs, a mosque and some graves on the Takkar. The tombs are constructed with burnt bricks and plastered with lime cheroli. The main tomb is that of Adam Shah which measures about 8 x 8 m in size with thickness of its walls up to 1.5m. Other important tombs include those of Wazir Shah, Baba Bachal Shah, Feroz Khan Talpur (1702-03 CE), Sati bin Rind (1687-88 CE). Traces of the remains of a fort and canons were also identified at the Takkar. The tomb belongs to Kalhora period of Historic Sindh.
- Record ID
- 5128
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Sukkur
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 27.70134, 68.85070 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Jansen, Michael, Yasmeen Lari. (2015). Inventory of Cultural Property in the Province of Sindh, Pakistan, 2015. Government of Sindh, Vol 4.
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