Heritage record
Tomb of Nur Jahan
PunjabTombProtected
The tomb of Nur Jahan (Mehrun Nisa Begum) was built by her during her lifetime, standing on a platform 48 m square. The tomb measures 12.4 sq.m and 6 m high. The interior was originally lime plaster bearing floral fresco paintings. The minute paintings were done in different positions in the honeycombed cornices of some of the rooms. The original cenotaphs over the graves of Nur Jahan and her daughter Ladli Begum, which are said to have been of marble, have disappeared, probably robbed during the Sikh rule.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 6472
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Lahore
- 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
- 31.62090, 74.29470 — 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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