Heritage record
Katcha Qila
SindhFortProtected
It was constructed during the Kalhora Period. It has been built with adobe and mud mortar on top of a burnt brick foundation. It has one large burji (bastion) and 10 smaller one. Inside the fort there are two dargahs, one of Makki Shah and the other one of Jalali Baba. Its walls are approximately 3m thick and height of the outer walls is about 12m. The entrance to the fort is on the south-east.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 5675
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Hyderabad
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Fort
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 25.37897, 68.36347 — 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 1.
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