Place · Mughal provincial capital · Pakistan
Lahore
Also known as Lahore, Lāhaur, Lohawar, Lavapur
The Mughal Punjab capital, held from the 1520s to 1849 — Akbar's Lahore Fort of 1566, Jahangir's Shahdara tomb complex, Shah Jahan's Shalimar Gardens of 1642, Aurangzeb's Badshahi Mosque of 1673, and the Wazir Khan Mosque of 1634 all sit within a few kilometres of each other on the Ravi. Ranjit Singh's Sikh capital from 1799, British Punjab's administrative seat from 1849, and the capital of West Punjab after 1947. The oldest continuously inhabited city on the Grand Trunk Road, with the Chishti anchor at Data Darbar — Ali Hujwiri's shrine, the subcontinent's largest Sufi urs — and the samadhi of Ranjit Singh beside the Badshahi Mosque.
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Tradition
- Standard reference and civic histories; INTACH and ASI records; municipal and state gazetteers.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 31.550, 74.344
Connections (10)
- Site withinData Darbār, Lahore
Data Darbār, Lahore sits inside Lahore and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
- Site withinWazir Khan Mosque, Lahore
Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore sits inside Lahore and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
- Site withinBadshahi Mosque, Lahore
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore sits inside Lahore and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
- Site withinSamādhi of Ranjīt Singh, Lahore
Samādhi of Ranjīt Singh, Lahore sits inside Lahore and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
- Site withinTomb of Allāma Iqbāl, Lahore
Tomb of Allāma Iqbāl, Lahore sits inside Lahore and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
- Site withinLahore Fort & Shalimar
Lahore Fort & Shalimar lies within Lahore — the two sites sit about 5 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Lahore Fort & Shalimar is one of the specific sites that give Lahore its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
- Site withinShahdara
Shahdara lies within Lahore — the two sites sit about 9 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Shahdara is one of the specific sites that give Lahore its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
- Site withinIndian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
The Indian Institute of Science sits in the Malleshwaram area of Bengaluru, on a 160-hectare campus between the city centre and Yeshwantpur. The Institute is the city's anchor scientific institution, and its founding on the Mysore government's land grant in 1909 is one of the formative acts that transformed late-colonial Bangalore from a small Mysore cantonment into the subcontinent's twentieth-century scientific capital. The surrounding research and technology ecosystem — the National Centre for Biological Sciences, the Raman Research Institute, the Indian Space Research Organisation headquarters — all orbit IISc.
- Buried atQutb-ud-Din Aibak
Qutb-ud-Din Aibak died playing a chaugan (polo) match at Lahore in 1210 when his horse fell on him, and was buried in the Anarkali bazaar area where his small sandstone tomb has been repeatedly rebuilt — most recently in 1970. The tomb is one of the earliest surviving Mamluk burials in the Punjab and the only major Delhi Sultan buried outside Delhi.
- Site adjacencyWagah
Wagah village lies about 24 km east of Lahore city on the Grand Trunk Road — outside the city itself but within Lahore district, and the city is Wagah’s nearest urban anchor. The border post, the Samjhauta terminal and the Delhi-Lahore bus arrival point are all here.