Heritage record
Sarfakhor Mosque
Gilgit-BaltistanMosqueProtected
This mosque is located in the Sarfakhor settlement of the Churka village in Shigar valley. The materials used to construct this building include stone, timber, and adobe. It sits on a raised platform, built using a cribbage-and-cator technique with dry stone masonry. The mosques verandah is supported by two cribbage columns, one at each corner, and a water channel flows in front of the mosque.
- Record ID
- 8240
- Province / territory
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- District
- Shigar
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Mosque
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 35.46985, 75.70292 — 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 Unpublished.
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