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Badshahi Mosque
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Badshahi Mosque

ਬਾਦਸ਼ਾਹੀ ਮਸਜਿਦبادشاہی مسیت

The great red sandstone mosque that Aurangzeb built beside the Lahore Fort in 1671–73, for three centuries one of the largest mosques in the world. Ranjit Singh's troops used it as a garrison and the British as a magazine before it was returned to worship in 1856.

Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan

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