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The Badshahi Mosque ( Punjabi, Urdu: بادشاہی مسجد) is an iconic Mughal-era congregational mosque in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. [1] [2] The mosque is located opposite of Lahore Fort in the outskirts of the Walled City and is widely considered to be one of Lahore's most iconic landmarks. [3]
Data Darbar (Urdu: داتا دربار, romanized: Dātā Darbār) is an Islamic shrine located in Lahore, Punjab. It is the largest Sufi shrine in South Asia.It was built to house the remains of al-Hujwiri, commonly known as Data Ganj Baksh or more colloquially as Data Sahab, a Sufi saint from Ghazni in present-day Afghanistan, who is believed to have lived on the site in the 11th century CE.
Pakistan Day (Urdu: یومِ پاکستان, lit. Yaum-e-Pakistan) or Pakistan Resolution Day, also Republic Day, is a national holiday in Pakistan primarily commemorating the adoption of the first Constitution of Pakistan during the transition of the Dominion of Pakistan to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 23 March 1956 making Pakistan the world's first Islamic republic.
Jamaat-e-Islami ( Urdu: جماعتِ اسلامی, English: Islamic Party; abbreviated JI ), or Jamaat as it is commonly known, is an Islamist political party based in Pakistan and founded by Abul Ala Maududi . It is the Pakistani successor to Jamaat-e-Islami, which was founded in colonial India in 1941. [9] Its objective is the transformation ...
Independence Day ( Urdu: یومِ آزادی, romanized : Yaum-i Āzādī ), observed annually on 14 August, is a national holiday in Pakistan. It commemorates the day when Pakistan achieved independence and was declared a sovereign state following the termination of the British Raj in August 1947. Pakistan came into existence as a result of ...
Yom-e Bab ul-Islam (Urdu: ... Al-Thaqafi was an Umayyad general who, at the age of 17, began the conquest of the Sind (which now consist of whole of Pakistan) ...
Minaret (s) 4. Minaret height. 107 feet (33 m) The Wazir Khan Masjid ( Punjabi, Persian, Urdu: مسجد وزیر خان; Masjid Wazīr Kh ān) is a 17th-century Mughal masjid located in the city of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. The mosque was commissioned during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as a part of an ensemble of buildings that ...
The Institute of Islamic Culture is an independent non-governmental institute and publishing house of Islamic studies in Lahore, Pakistan. It was established in Lahore in 1950 for the purpose of conducting scientific and research studies on various aspects of Islamic civilization and culture. [1] [2] [3] Dr. Khalifa Abdul Hakeem was its founder ...