Walled City Lahore, Pakistan
Channel: APP Digital
Date: 2021-03-12

A peep into the historic walled City of Lahore, Pakistan
Lahore Fort - a masterpiece from the time of the brilliant Mughal civilization is part of UNESCO's World Heritage List

The Lahore Fort is characterized by monumental structures - an outstanding example of Mughal artistic expression at its height, as it evolved during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Mughal civilisation, a fusion of Islamic, Persian, Hindu and Mongol sources (from whence the name Mughal derives) dominated the Indian subcontinent for several centuries and strongly influenced its subsequent development.

The Lahore Fort, situated in the north-west corner of the Walled City of Lahore, occupies a site which has been occupied for several millenia. Assuming its present configuration during the 11th century, the Fort was destroyed and rebuilt several times by the early Mughals during the 13th to the 15th centuries. The 21 monuments which survive within its boundaries comprise an outstanding repertory of the forms of Mughal architecture from the reign of Akbar (1542-1605), characterized by standardized masonry of baked brick and red sandstone courses relieved by Hindu motifs including zooomorphic corbels, through that of Shah Jahan (1627-58), characterized by the use of luxurious marbles, inlays of precious materials and mosaics, set within exuberant decorative motifs of Persian origins. (Text courtesy https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/171/)

The Walled City of Lahore -the Old City, is historic core of Lahore, Pakistan. 

The city established around 1000 CE in the western half of the Walled City, which was fortified by a mud wall during the medieval era. 

The Walled City has numerous monuments of the Mughal era, including some of Lahore’s most iconic structures - such as the lavishly decorated Wazir Khan Mosque, the Badshahi Mosque, and the Shahi Hammam - the royal baths
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