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Bhai Khan Tomb

SindhTombProtected
This tomb is located in Mian Noor Muhammad Kalhora graveyard, Nawab Shah. It is rectangular in plan and measures 6.70x5.25x6.30m. It is made up of burnt bricks, mud mortar, lime mortar. It is built on small raised platform. The entrance has multi-cusp arched door. It has series of merlons on the parapet and two domes with inverted lotus mahapadmas. Internally each wall has deep recessed arches in lower rows while rectangular panels in upper rows. The tomb is associated to Kalhora period of Historic Sindh (1700-1783 CE).
Record ID
6517
Province / territory
Sindh
District
Shaheed Benazirabad
Typology
Monument
Subtype
Tomb
Period
Historic
Legal status
Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
Coordinates
26.54722, 68.06889 — source-provided, not field-verified
Verification status
source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
Sources
Shah, S. S. Ali. (2002). Nawab Shah: The Lost Glory. Indus Publications, Karachi.

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