Gulbadan

Tucked away between tall crumbling structures that line the winding narrow alleys of Lahore's probably-a-millenium-old walled city is a small little jewel called Mosque Wazir Khan. It was built in the late 17th century, I believe, by the Mughal governor of Lahore. I read somewhere that it is on UNESCO's World Heritage List, and so it should be, for it requires some immediate preservation and restoration. Not as grand as the Badshahi Mosque (which leaves almost every visitor to Lahore spellbound, especially with the night-time view from that expensive elitist Cucoo's), this is one for those who appreciate not grand monuments, but subtlety and craft. The inner walls are so full of colour they almost make the mosque come alive, and the paintwork is one of the highest class.









The above image is the only one not taken by me. That explains the watermark and the better quality, I guess. I borrowed it from a website, for it was too beautiful.









More pictures, taken by those with a better camera than the one in my crappy cell phone, can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wazir_Khan_Mosque