Heritage record
Gilani Chowk Temple
Azad Jammu and KashmirTempleProtected
It is situated at bank road, Gilani Chowk Muzaffarabad. It is square in plan. It has a pyramidal shikara whose finial is missing. The base of shikara is made of lotus petals design. Two arches are present at front side. It has two niches on the western wall. It is mainly made of limestone. Approach to the temple is blocked by market and the temple itself has been encroached by local people. It is 15.20m high, 4.19m wide and 3.7m high.
- Record ID
- 6655
- Province / territory
- Azad Jammu and Kashmir
- District
- Muzaffarabad
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Temple
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.36734, 73.47068 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Ashraf, Ghani-ur-Rahman. (2020). Threat to the Cultural Heritage of Pakistan Survey and Documentation of Tangible and Intangible Heritage of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. Taxila Institute of Asian Civilizations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 2020.
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