Wazir Khan Mosque

Description

Wazir Khan Mosque was worked in 1634 by Shaikh Ilm-ud-fuss Ansari, Viceroy of Punjab under Shah Jahan. Ansari hailed from humble beginnings in the town of Chiniot in the Jhang territory of the Punjab. He mulled over solution under Hakim Dawi and was utilized by the Mughal court as the individual specialist of Prince Kuram, the future Shah Jehan. The energetic ruler was so taken with Ansari's wellness that he allowed him with the title Wazir Khan in 1620. Wazir is a title connoting "Minister" in Urdu. 

Wazir Khan got a tremendous tract of land in Lahore restricted by the Delhi Gate toward the east and the Lahore Fort toward the west. He set up the mosque that at present bears his name on the site of the tomb of Syed Muhammed Ishaq (generally called Miran Badshah), a sacred individual who had moved from Iran in the thirteenth century. Wazir Khan furthermore settled a bathhouse (Shahi Hammam) and different business establishments along the road to the mosque whose wage was relied upon to ensure upkeep of the mosque into constancy. Despite the way that the bathhouse did not give as much wage as proposed, the bazaar toward the east of the mosque was extremely productive and remains a flourishing business division even to the present day. 

The mosque's perceiving building feature is the use of minarets at each one of its four corners- - the main go through such a diagram was used in Lahore. The supplication hall takes after the one-path five-limits topic that was first settled in Lahore an age earlier at the Maryam Zamani Mosque, which was later to find its full enunciation in the Badshahi Mosque worked by Emperor Aurangzeb 50 years sometime later. An incredible piece of the mosque is produced of cut and dressed square lit up with covered tile mosaics. 

A curious part of the mosque is the combination of 22 shops into its ground plan. Orchestrated on either side of the path campaign, these shops shape a bazaar with a square cleared area in the center. This business locale extends east past the mosque into the Chowk Wazir Khan (Wazir Khan Square) which remains a dynamic commerical territory to the present day. 

The game plan of the 5-straight single path supplication chamber 130' since a long time ago, surrounded by straightforward cusped curves carried on profound wharfs, is reminiscent of the Maryam Zamani (Begam Shahi) Mosque. The focal arch, ascending higher than others, highlights the carefully definite mihrab, the quick development of twofold vaults conveying the voice of the imam to the limit of the patio. 

The game plan of kalib kari, a tracery of pendentives, is utilized as a part of substantial and also many-sided apiary designs, giving an extraordinary flavor to the building. Its stately octagonal minarets ascending to a tallness of more than 100 feet and characterizing the four furthest points of the patio, comprise of a few phases and are topped with a booth (chattri) setup ended with fluted vaults, all bountifully enriched with the best of Shahjahani tile mosaic. The work was administered by driving Persian craftsmen who had come to India on the requests of Shah Jahan. One of its most alluring highlights is the bright botanical and calligraphic outlines in coated tile mosaic work, said to be presented from Thatta amid the sixteenth century. It is in the embellished boards of this mosque that the cypress as a theme on enameled mosaic work shows up out of the blue. The enhanced octagonal minarets, among the soonest of this write in Mughal design, are another particular element of the mosque. 

The sublime calligraphy by surely understood khattats (ace calligraphers) in rendering verses from the Holy Quran and Persian verse in rich nastaliq, naskh and tughra shapes is itself a treat. The uncommon mix of calligraphy, geometrical structures and botanical enrichment alongside expansive scale glittering kashi kari (tile mosaic), fresco painting, stone and chunam (mortar) improvement, with taza kari (block diagram fresco) loans the mosque a character totally its own. Lockwood Kipling was not far wrong when he pronounced "This delightful building is in itself a school of outline."