Heritage record
Murid Fort
PunjabFortProtected
It is a square fort, made of burnt brick, 27m internally with four bastions at the corners, each 5m in dia. The walls are 2m thick and stand 2m high. A 4m wide entrance is provided on the southern side, the fort was built by one Haji Khan, son of Ikhtiyar Khan in 1777 CE, and was reportedly destroyed by floods in 1805 CE.
- Record ID
- 7006
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Rahim Yar Khan
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Fort
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 28.38694, 70.76500 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Mughal, Mohammad Rafique. (1997). Forts in Cholistan. Ancient Cholistan, Archaeology and Architecture.
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