Heritage record
Tomb of Mir Shahdad
SindhTombProtected
This is the Kalhora period (18th Century CE) tomb of Mir Shahdad who had assisted the Kalhora to power in Sindh against the Mughals. He died in 1734 and was buried in this tomb. The tomb is surrounded by a boundary wall constructed with burnt bricks and containing four minarets on the corners. There are two pavilions with domes within the enclosure. The large canopy with a larger dome houses the grave of Mir Shahdad and the smaller canopy houses the graves of his two children.
- Record ID
- 5297
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Sanghar
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992) (instrument: Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992))
- Coordinates
- 26.18729, 68.63353 — 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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