Makli graveyard, one of the eight World Cultural Heritage Site in Pakistan is perhaps the largest necropolis in the world. Extending even beyond its present day limits, it has no less than a million graves some of them distinguished by the provision of canopies, tombs or simple perimeter walls enclosing their groups. Some of the
Baloch Graveyard (Lakho Shaikh) Karachi
Baloch Graveyard (Lakho Shaikh) Karachi
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Baloch Graveyard occupies the place on south east of Malir Cantt, in Malir district of Karachi. The approach to the site is easily accessible from the Damloti Road. The Graveyard is spread over and extensive area and contains several tombs of certain warriors and people, who settled in this area somewhere in 16th – 17th
Makli Necropolis, Thatta
Makli Necropolis, Thatta
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Makli is a vast grave having graves made of boulders and plastered with lime chiroli etc. belonging to the period of Summa dynasty. Makli Necropolis is one of the largest funerary sites in the world, spread over an area of 10 square kilometres near the city of Thatta, in the Pakistani province of Sindh. The
Sateen Jo Asthan / Seven Sisters – Rohri, Sukkur
Sateen Jo Asthan / Seven Sisters – Rohri, Sukkur
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The most important monument of Rohri lies on one of the little hills that rise out of the River Bank. On south there is a level platform on which are many carved grave-stones like those of the Makli Hills at Thatta, with chain ornament and panels of Arabic quotations from the Holy Quran. The whole
Soonda Graveyard, Thatta
Soonda Graveyard, Thatta
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Area: 52.38 acres Village Sonda situated about 20-22 miles from Thatta along main road to Hyderabad was founded according to Mir Ali Shair Qane author of Tuhfat-ul-Karam, by Jam Tamachi in 3rd quarter of fourteenth century A.D. It is said that there lived a saint here before the town was founded. The saint was very fond
Maqam Qadam Shah Graveyard, Village Raj Malik
Maqam Qadam Shah Graveyard, Village Raj Malik
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Area: 37 Acres The graveyard known as Maqam Qadam Shah (Qadam Gah) at village Raj Malik contains some tombs built in the local yellow sandstone and belong probably to the 17th & 18th centuries AD. The style of carving and ornamentation on these graves have similarity with those Baloch tombs situated at Chaukundi and elsewhere. District: Thatta