Place · Mughal & Afghan hilltop fort · India
Hari Parbat Fort, Srinagar
Also known as Hari Parbat, Hariparbat, Sharika, Nagar Nagar
The hill fort on the Sharika mound above Srinagar's old city, with a Mughal outer wall built by Akbar in 1590 and the inner fort rebuilt by the Afghan governor Atta Mohammad Khan around 1808. The mound carries the Sharika Devi temple on its western face, the Makhdoom Sahib shrine on its southern slope, and the Gurdwara Chatti Padshahi where Guru Hargobind is said to have stopped — three traditions on one rock, which is the local shorthand for Kashmir itself.
- Date
- 1590–1808
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Patron dynasty
- Mughal · Afghan · Dogra
- River basin
- Jhelum
- Tradition
- Mughal farmāns on the Nagar Nagar wall; Kalhana's Rajatarangini on the mound; ASI Srinagar circle records.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 34.103, 74.807
Worth knowing
Akbar's four-and-a-half-kilometre wall around the base of the mound, built with inscription slabs recording the date and the master mason, was intended to enclose a new Mughal city — Nagar Nagar — that was never fully built. The Dogra rulers later used the fort as a prison. The Sharika Devi temple is one of the Kashmiri Pandits' most important valley shrines.
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- Site withinSrinagar
Hari Parbat is Srinagar's northern hill, with the Mughal fort of Akbar inside its outer wall and the Nagar Nagar plan that Akbar intended to build around it but never completed. The hill carries the Sharika Devi temple of the Kashmiri Pandits, the Makhdoom Sahib Sufi shrine and a Sikh gurdwara on separate faces of the one rock, so Srinagar's three traditions share this landmark more completely than any other in the city.