Heritage record
Pir Adil Tomb
PunjabTombProtected
This tomb is built of small bricks in mud mortar. It is square below and octagonal above, below the dome. It has two openings on the eastern and southern sides. The walls are decorated with glaze tile work and cut brick work in different designs. The exterior is decorated with glazed tiles. In the inner side, there are four arched panels on each side with mihrab on the western side decorated with glazed tiles. There are two Persian inscriptions on the top of mihrab. Four squinches at each corner are made to make the base octagonal and further sub-divided into 16 sides, on which a dome is placed. In the center of the tomb, there is a grave of Pir Adil with wooden canopy above.
- Record ID
- 6197
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Dera Ghazi Khan
- Tehsil
- D. G. Khan
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Protected by The Punjab Special Premises (Preservation), Ordinance, 1985 (instrument: Protected by The Punjab Special Premises (Preservation), Ordinance, 1985)
- Coordinates
- 30.18056, 70.73333 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Rasool, Niaz. (1996). The Monuments and Ancient Sites in the Surveyed Districts of Punjab. Pakistan Archaeology, Number 29, 1994-1996, DOAM, Karachi.
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