Heritage record
Farud Gah Shahn-e-Mughalia (Tank and Garden)
PunjabGardenProtected
About 15 km from Taxila on the main G.T. Road at Wah, there is a complex of Garden, pavilions and tanks known as Farud Gah Shahan-i-Mughlia, constructed during the days of Emperor Akbar by Man Singh. It was also visited by Emperor Jahangir. Like the other pleasure gardens of the Mughal period, this garden was also divided into three stages through screen walls having main entrance on the west. In between the first and middle stages was an imposing pavilion having a cascade, a cistern and water channels, the middle stage had the main water tank (60mx60m) and a pavilion at its end.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 6397
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Rawalpindi
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Garden
- 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
- 33.80125, 72.70051 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Ahmad Nabi. (1987). Archaeological Sites and Historical Monuments Protected Under the Antiquities Act, 1975. Federal Department of Archaeology & Museums, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad.
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