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Shalimar Garden is a residential and commercial locality in the North Western part of the city of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.It comprises three wards of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation and accordingly has three major divisions, viz. Shalimar Garden (Main), Shalimar Garden Extension-I and Shalimar Garden Extension-II.
The Shalimar Garden's contain the most waterworks of any Mughal Garden. [2] It contains 410 fountains, which discharge into wide marble pools, each known as a haūz . The enclosed garden is rendered cooler than surrounding areas by the garden's dense foliage, and water features [ 14 ] - a relief during Lahore's blistering summers, with ...
The Shalimar Gardens in Lahore are among the most famous Mughal gardens. Mughal gardens are gardens built by the Mughals in the Islamic style. This style was influenced by Persian gardens. They are built in the char bagh structure, which is a quadrilateral garden layout based on the four gardens of Paradise mentioned in the Qur'an. This style ...
Lahore is also known as "the city of gardens" due to its large number of gardens. The Shahdara Bagh was one of the earliest Mughal gardens, laid out in 15th century, and contains the Tomb of Jahangir. The Shalimar Gardens were laid out during the reign of Shah Jahan and were designed to mimic the Islamic paradise of the afterlife described in ...
The Shalimar Gardens in Baghbanpura, Lahore. The Mian family is a historic family belonging to the Arain tribe of Punjab region. The family has made great contributions to the region and owned the land near Baghbanpura on which the Shalimar Gardens (Lahore) were built.
The town is named after the Shalimar Gardens, built by Emperor Shah Jehan in 1640. [4] The Mela Chiraghan festival used to take place at Shalimar Gardens, until President Ayub Khan ordered against it in 1958. Shalimar was officially declared a township in 1962 and became an administrative town (tehsil) of Lahore City District in 2001.
Shalimar Gardens may refer to the following Mughal gardens: Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar, India; Shalimar Gardens, Delhi, India Shalimar Bagh Assembly constituency;
Shalimar or Shalamar may refer to: Shalimar Gardens (disambiguation) , three historic royal Mughal gardens (or baghs) of the Mughal Empire in South Asia: Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir, India; built in 1619