Heritage record
Granaries of Kot Diji
SindhGranariesProtected
These granaries were built sometimes between 1785 to 1795 CE by Mir Sohrab Khan Talpur the founder of the Talpur dynasty in the Upper Sindh. They are built with burnt bricks and adobe mud. They are circular in shape and each unit is 8m in dia. surmounted by a dome and provided with four ventilators and a wooden door. They are part of the Kot Diji Fort.
- Record ID
- 5199
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Khairpur
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Granaries
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 27.34432, 68.70746 — 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 3.
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