Sufi shrines
The shrines of the saints, from Pakpattan, Multan and Uch to Lahore, Malerkotla and the Margalla hills.
Best known first
Shrine of Bulleh Shah, the Sufi poet whose kafis are sung across both Punjabs.
Shrine of Baba Farid, the first great poet of Punjabi, whose verses are in the Guru Granth Sahib.
The shrine of Ali Hujwiri, Data Ganj Bakhsh, who came to Lahore in the eleventh century. The oldest and most visited Sufi shrine of the city.
City of medieval Sufi shrines, birthplace of Bulleh Shah.
The octagonal brick tomb of the Suhrawardi saint, built in 1320–24 and faced with blue and white tiles, which rises over the old fort of Multan.
Country of Sultan Bahu and of the Heer–Ranjha legend; Heer's family were Sials of Jhang.
Birthplace and resting place of Waris Shah, author of the Punjabi epic Heer.
Tomb of the Qadiri saint Mian Mir, friend of Guru Arjan and teacher of the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh.
Shrine of the poet Shah Hussain and his beloved Madho Lal, where Lahore holds its great spring fair, the Mela Chiraghan.
Hilltop shrine in Lahore famous for its Thursday-night dhol and dhamaal.
Tomb in Multan fort of the saint who brought the Suhrawardi order of Sufis to South Asia.
Green-domed shrine of a wandering saint who, the story goes, asked the sun to come down and roast his fish.
Shrine near the Chenab of Sultan Bahu, whose Punjabi verses each end with the sigh 'Hu'.
Shrine on the Indus of the great Saraiki poet of the desert, Khwaja Ghulam Farid.
Shrine of Lakhdata Pir in the foothills of the Suleiman range, once the goal of a great pilgrimage of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims.
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh's shrine, Khari SharifAzad Kashmir, PakistanShrine near Mirpur of the poet of Saif ul Malook, whose couplets are quoted all over the northern Punjab.
Shah Daula's shrine, GujratPunjab, PakistanShrine of a 17th-century saint of Gujrat who built bridges and drains, and to which childless couples once gave a child.
Haider Shaikh's shrine, MalerkotlaPunjab, IndiaShrine of the founder of Malerkotla, visited by Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus in a town that was spared in 1947.
Tomb at Sirhind of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi, the Naqshbandi scholar who opposed Akbar's tolerance.
Shrine at the foot of the Margalla hills of the saint of the Pothohar, Bari Imam.
Shrine of Pir Meher Ali Shah, scholar and poet of the Chishti order, below the Margalla hills.
One of the oldest Muslim shrines of the eastern Punjab, in the old city of Jalandhar.
The place in Faridkot where Baba Farid is said to have stopped on his travels, and after whom the town is named.