Pakistan has a number of shrines that have become places of

pilgrimage A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, aft ...

. They include mausolea and shrines of political leaders (of both pre-independence and post-independence

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

), shrines of religious leaders and pirs (saints) and shrines of leaders of various Islamic empires and dynasties.

Founding Fathers

*The mausoleum of

Muhammad Ali Jinnah Muhammad Ali Jinnah (, ; born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the ...

(Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam) in

Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...

*The mausoleum of

Allama Muhammad Iqbal Sir Muhammad Iqbal ( ur, ; 9 November 187721 April 1938), was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philos ...

(Poet of the Nation) in

Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second List of cities in Pakistan by population, most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th List of largest cities, most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is th ...

Sufis saints and religious figures

Gallery

File:Tomb Quaid1.JPG, Mausoleum of

also called

Mazar-e-Quaid Mazar-e-Quaid ( ur, , lit=Mausoleum of the Leader) is the resting place of Muhammad Ali Jinnah situated in Karachi, Sindh. The marble monument comprises a surface area of . It is surrounded by formal gardens and designed in an Islamic modernist ...

. File:Allama Iqbals Tomb East wall close-up July 1 2005.jpg, Mausoleum of Muhammad Iqbal File:Data durbar (9).JPG, Mausoleum and Mosque of Sufi Saint Abul Hassan Ali Hajweri,

. File:Tomb of Emperor Jahangir.jpg, Tomb of Jahangir, Lahore File:Tomb of Noor Jahan at Shahdara.jpg, Tomb of Nur Jahan, Lahore Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam 2014-07-31.jpg,

Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam The Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam (Punjabi and ur, ) located in Multan, Pakistan, is the mausoleum of the 14th century Punjabi Sufi saint Sheikh Rukn-ud-Din Abul Fateh. The shrine is considered to be the earliest example of Tughluq architecture, ...

, one of many

mausoleums of Multan The city of Multan, Punjab, Pakistan has many mausoleums and shrines, due to its rich heritage of pirs and saints. Some of the best-known mausoleums that can still be visited today include the following. Mausoleum of Baha-ud-Din Zakaria At th ...

File:Shrine Of Allo Mahar sharif.jpg, Tomb of Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah and

Muhammad Amin Shah Sani Muhammad Amin Shah Sani was a Sufi scholar from Pakistan belonging to the Nahbandi order. He is known as a Hanafi scholar and saint. He received his early Qur'anic education at the Khankah Allo Mahar. The first of his ancestors in Allo Mahar was ...

in Allo Mahar,

Sialkot Sialkot ( ur, ) is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the capital of Sialkot District and the 13th most populous city in Pakistan. The boundaries of Sialkot are joined with Jammu (the winter capital of Indian administered Jammu and Ka ...

. File:A side view of Darbar Sharif of Shams Ali Qalandar.jpg, Mausoleum of Shams Ali Qalandar, Shamsabad, Hujra Shah Muqeem File:B Bi Pak Daman June5 2004 (6).jpg, Mausoleum of Bibi Pak Daman,

. File:Tomb of Syed Muhammad Jewan Shah Naqvi Al Hussaini.jpg, Tomb of Syed Muhammad Jewan Shah Naqvi in Allo Mahar,

. File:Samadhi of Ranjit Singh July 1 2005.jpg,

Samadhi of Ranjit Singh The Samadhi of Ranjit Singh ( pa, , ਰਣਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਦੀ ਸਮਾਧੀ ; ) is a 19th-century building in Lahore, Pakistan that houses the funerary urns of the Sikh Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780 – 1839). It is located adjacen ...

. Shrine Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Sehwan Shareed, Sindh.jpg, Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Sehwan File:Khawaja Ghulam Farid tomb at Kot Mithan.jpg, Khwaja Ghulam Farid's Mausoleum at Kot Mithan. File:Chaukundi1.JPG, Chaukhandi tombs, 25 km east of

on N-5 National Highway File:View of Makli by Usman Ghani (cropped).jpg, Cluster of tombs at Makli Necropolis File:Bahauddin Zakariya Tomb 9.jpg,

Baha-ud-din Zakariya Baha-ud-din Zakariya (Urdu and fa, بہاءُ الدین زکریا) (c.1170 – 1262), also spelled Bahauddin Zakariya, and also known as Baha-ul-Haq and Bahauddin Zakariya Multani, was a Sunni Muslim scholar saint and poet who establish ...

's Mausoleum in

Multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the ol ...

File:Taunsa.jpg, Shrine of Shah Suleman Taunsvi in Taunsa Sharif File:Mausoleum of Pir Meher Ali Shah.jpg, Mausoleum of

Pir Meher Ali Shah Meher Ali Shah ( ur, پیر مہر على شاه‬; 14 April 1859 – May 1937), was a Sufi scholar and a mystic Punjabi poet from Punjab, British India (present-day Pakistan) belonging to the Chishti order. He is known as a Hanafi scholar ...

, Golra Sharif,

Islamabad Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital ...

File:Mian-Mir-Mausoleum.jpg, Mausoleum of Mir Muhammad better known as Mian Mir in

; he was the spiritual instructor of Mughal Prince

Dara Shikoh Dara Shikoh ( fa, ), also known as Dara Shukoh, (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659) was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Dara was designated with the title ''Padshahzada-i-Buzurg Martaba'' ("Prince of High Rank ...

. File:Sohni Tomb.Jpg, Mausoleum of Sohni Mahiwal in Shahdadpur,

Sindh Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

File:Shrine of Pir Hadi Hassan Bux Shah Jilani.jpg, Shrine of Pir Hadi Hassan Bux Shah Jilani,Duthro Sharif,

Sanghar Sanghar ( sd, سانگھڙ; ur, سانگھڑ English: Sānghar) is a city in Sanghar District, Sindh, Pakistan. Sanghar is the headquarters of Sanghar District and Sanghar Taluka (a subdivision of the district). The driving distance of Sangher ...

File:Darbar Hazrat Baba Farid ud Deen Ganj Shakar Rahmatullah Alaih - panoramio.jpg, The shrine of Baba Farid

References

{{reflist Sufi shrines in Pakistan History of Pakistan Pakistani social culture * Mausoleums Mausolea and shrines

Founding Fathers

Sufis saints and religious figures

Gallery

See also

References