Heritage record
Paindo Mosque
Gilgit-BaltistanMosqueProtected
This mosque is located on top of a hill in Paindo, Wazirpur, and is raised on a stone platform. Previously, the surrounding settlement was also established on the hill, but the residents eventually moved towards building their houses on lower, agricultural lands. The Paindo Mosque has a square-shaped prayer room, measuring 1.8 sq.m., with verandahs on its eastern and southern sides. The mosque was built using a cribbage-and-cator technique of construction. An Astana, a traditional cooking area, and a changrah (communal gathering space) still exist to the west of the mosque.
- Record ID
- 8024
- Province / territory
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- District
- Shigar
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Mosque
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 35.45056, 75.69000 — 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 Unpublished.
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