Heritage record
Raja Mosque
Gilgit-BaltistanMosqueProtected
The small beautiful mosque lies in a garden near the polo ground and is close to the Raja Hussain Khan`s Museum. The mosque is about 150 years old. It was built by Mir Muhammad Nazim Khan for the royal family and was later used as a place where the community gathered. The floral and geometric woodcarvings as well as the lattice work reflect the traditional artistically work in the region. The museum housed ethnological materials and a Gun that was said to have shot Col. Durand in the leg during the battle of Nilt (1891).
- Record ID
- 7806
- Province / territory
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- District
- Hunza
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Mosque
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 36.27333, 74.73817 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Anonymous. (Miscellaneous). Built Heritage of Gilgit Baltistan by Baltistan Culture and Development Foundation. Unpublished.
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