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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 ...
Shalimar Bagh (Urdu pronunciation: [ʃɑːliːmɑːɾ bɑːɣ], Kashmiri pronunciation: [ʃaːlɨməːr baːɣ] is a Mughal garden in Srinagar of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir,o the northeast of Dal Lake. It is also known as Shalimar Gardens, Farah Baksh, and Faiz Baksh.
Shalimar Bagh also known as Shalimar Garden is a Mughal garden located on the banks of Yamuna river in Delhi, India.It was named as Aizzabad Bagh when the garden was laid by Izz-un-Nissa wife of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1653 as a tribute and replica of Shalimar Bagh, Kashmir, laid by erstwhile Mughal emperor Jahangir in 1619, the Shalimar Bagh of Delhi is now abandoned but still houses ...
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
Gol Bagh was the largest recorded garden of the Indian subcontinent, [12] encompassing the town of Lahore with a five-mile belt of greenery; [13] it existed until as late as 1947. [13] The initiator of the Mughal gardens in India was Zaheeruddin Babur who had witnessed the beauty of Timurid gardens in Central Asia during his early days.
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.
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The Emperor Shah Jahan was born in Lahore in 1592, and bestowed the city with its famous Shalimar Gardens. By the time of his reign, six times as many Lahoris lived outside of the city walls than within. [1] As a nobleman under Shah Jahan, Wazir Khan embarked on a program of architectural patronage. [4]