Heritage record
Tomb of Baba Farid
PunjabTombProtected
The tomb building is almost a cube of 5.20m, per side and has a cusped dome raised on pendentive system. The small tomb chamber has its entrance on the east, while on the south side there is another door more commonly known as bihishti darwaza. The interior of the tomb is decorated with cut glass work; the exterior however has some older inscriptions. No date for these inscriptions can be given with certainty. The front of the tomb of Baba Farid has a couplet over the main entrance executed in raised masonry and painted in black.
- Record ID
- 9694
- Province / territory
- Punjab
- District
- Pakpattan
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 30.34144, 73.38781 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Mahmood, Shaukat. (1995). Pakpattan and It`s Religious Architecture. Lahore Museum Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 1, January-June, 1995.
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