Place · Mughal caravanserai gateway · India
Sarai Amanat Khan
Also known as Amanat Khan Sarai, Serai Amanat Khan
Amanat Khan Sarai, about forty kilometres west of Amritsar on the old Lahore road, carries a pair of carved sandstone gateways from a now-ruined Mughal caravanserai built by Amanat Khan Shirazi — the Persian calligrapher who signed the Taj Mahal's Quranic inscriptions. He retired to the sarai after Mumtaz Mahal's death and is buried in the complex. The surviving north and south gateways are inscribed in Thuluth and Naskh and constitute one of the best-preserved Mughal sarai gatehouse pairs on the Delhi-Lahore highway.
Dynasties & capitalsCraft & industryTrade, ports & money
- Function
- Trade & production
- Patron dynasty
- Mughal
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 31.331, 74.818
Connections (1)
- Site withinAmritsar
Amanat Khan Sarai lies about 40 km west of Amritsar on the old Lahore road.
Sources
Standard reference (Archaeological Survey of India).
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