Heritage record
Kuri Baradari
IslamabadTombProtected
The Baradari is octagonal in plan, measuring 3.20m high with its circumference measuring 16m. The entrance is 2.20m high and 1m wide. Height of the platform is 2m and thickness of wall is 60cm. Brick measures 16cmx4cm. Main structures are approached by eleven steps. It has been built on a high platform in burnt bricks masonry with lime mortar. The Baradari has four entrances built in multi cusped arches and four false arches. The building of the Baradari has been plastered with lime mortar internally and externally, on which traces of fresco paintings, floral and geometrical designs in red, yellow and green colours are reported.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 6241
- Province / territory
- Islamabad
- District
- Islamabad
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 33.66815, 73.15978 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Muhammad Ashraf et.al. (2010). Archaeological Remains and Monuments of Islamabad Capital Territory and District Rawalpindi. Journal of Asian Civilizations, Vol. 33, No. 2, Dec 2010.
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