The Badshahi Mosque (King’s Mosque), in metropolis is the ordinal maximal masjid in Pakistan and South aggregation and the fifth maximal masjid in the world. It is Lahore’s most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era.
Badshahi Mosque
Capable of accommodating 10,000 worshippers in its main prayer hall and 100,000 in its courtyard and porticoes, it remained the maximal masjid in the concern from 1673 to 1986 (a period of 313 years), when overtaken in size by the completion of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it remains the ordinal maximal masjid in Pakistan and South aggregation and the fifth maximal masjid in the concern after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet’s Mosque) in Medina, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.
To appreciate its large size, the four minarets of the Badshahi Mosque are 13.9 ft (4.2 m) taller than those of the Taj Mahal and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can fit inside the 278,784 sq ft (25,899.9 m2) courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque, which is the maximal masjid courtyard in the world.
GPS coordinates: 31° 35′ 18.49″ N, 74° 18′ 49.63″ E
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