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The temple was constructed in 1824 CE to commemorate the birthplace of Shreyansanatha. [7] [8] [9] The mulnayak (primary deity) of the temple is a large image of Shreyansanatha and impressions of footprints. [5] The temple also features attractive frescoes depicting the life of Mahavira. [1]
City Province Abdullah Shah Ghazi: Descendant of Imam Hasan ibn Ali: 720-773: Clifton: Karachi: Sindh: Syed Abul Hassan Bin Usman Bin Ali Al-Hajweri: Hanafi: 990-1077: Data Durbar Complex: Lahore: Punjab Bahauddin Zakariya: Suhrawardiyya: 1070-1167: Multan City: Multan: Punjab: Ganj e Inayat Sarkar: Naqshbandi: 1937_2011 Gulberg 3: Lahore ...
National Museum of Pakistan; Pakistan Air Force Museum; Pakistan Maritime Museum; Quaid-e-Azam House, also known as Flagstaff House, a museum dedicated to the life of Muhammad Ali Jinnah; Wazir Mansion, also as Quaid-i-Azam Birthplace Museum, a museum that was the birthplace of Muhammad Ali Jinnah [1]
The monastery is the most complete Buddhist monastery in Pakistan and comprises several groups of stupas, monastic cells, temples, and secular buildings. [7] Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta Sindh: 1981 143; iii (cultural) Makli is a large necropolis in the city of Thatta. It was active between the 14th and 18th centuries.
The major Hindu temples in Pakistan are Shri Hinglaj Mata temple (whose annual Hinglaj Yatra is the largest Hindu pilgrimage in Pakistan, which is participated by more than 250,000 pilgrims), [1] Shri Ramdev Pir temple (whose annual Ramdevpir Mela in the temple is the second largest Hindu pilgrimage in Pakistan, [2] Umarkot Shiv Mandir (famous for its annual Shivrathri festival, which is one ...
Sarnath is one of the locations of Rudyard Kipling's 1901 novel Kim. Teshoo Lama stays at the "Temple of the Tirthankhers" in Sarnath when not on his pilgrimages. [77] "The Nameless City" is a fictional short story published in 1921 by H. P. Lovecraft. When the narrator of this story sees the ruins of the Nameless City, he "thought of Sarnath ...
The Buddha Preaching his First Sermon is a stone sculpture of the 5th-century CE showing Gautama Buddha in the "teaching posture" or dharmachakra pravartana mudrā. [2] The relief is 5' 3" tall, and was excavated at Sarnath, India by F. O. Oertel during the 1904–1905 excavation season of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI); it was found in an area to the south of the Dhamek Stupa.
The temple was visited by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan during this period. [8] In 1989, for the first time since the independence in 1947, a group of sadhus from the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad visited the temple. [7] Since then, small groups from the Ahmedabad temple pay this temple a visit every few years in a pilgrimage.