Heritage record
Bhordas Mosque
Gilgit-BaltistanMosqueProtected
This mosque is located in the Thaly valley, in a small village called Bardus. It is built on a raised platform, and is surrounded by the old settlement of the village. Traditional cribbage and cator techniques have been used in its construction while employing local materials including stone, timber and mud. Its lower level, the winter mosque, can be accessed from the verandah. The mosque includes a main prayer hall, with a double-sided verandah on its eastern and southern sides. The verandah is decorated with wooden arches and a wooden cornice on its roof.
- Record ID
- 8213
- Province / territory
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- District
- Ghanche
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Mosque
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 35.31968, 76.15018 — 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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