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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.

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Function
Trade & production
Patron dynasty
Mughal
Confidence
Established / referenced
Location
31.331, 74.818

Connections (1)

Sources

Standard reference (Archaeological Survey of India).

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