Heritage record
Banpi Mosque
Gilgit-BaltistanMosqueProtected
This mosque lies at the center of the Banpi settlement in Khaplu, the latter being the district headquarters of Ghanche. The mosque is a single-storey structure with a main prayer hall and a verandah on its eastern side. A traditional cribbage and cator technique have been employed in its construction, using stone, adobe, timber and mud as raw materials.
- Record ID
- 7968
- Province / territory
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- District
- Ghanche
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Mosque
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 35.16417, 76.32583 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Dani, Ahmed Hassan. (2001). History of Northern Areas of Pakistan: Up to 2000 A.D. Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore.
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