The tomb of Timur Shah Durrani (''Maqbara-i-Timur Shah'') is located in

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

and was built in 1815. It is the mausoleum of

Timur Shah Durrani Timur Shah Durrani (; prs, ;), also known as Timur Shah Abdali or Taimur Shah Abdali (December 1746 – May 20, 1793) was the second ruler of the Afghan Durrani Empire, from November 1772 until his death in 1793. An ethnic Pashtun, he was the se ...

, who was the second ruler of the

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, from 1772–1793. In 1776 Timur Shah chose Kabul as the capital of Afghanistan, which was

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until then. Although he died in 1793 in

Char Bagh Char Bagh is an area within Laghman Province, Afghanistan and is observable from the Jalalabad-Kabul Road. History According to some sources, when Alexander the Great entered the region, he built a town between Char Bagh and Mandrawar after the ...

, it wasn't until years later that the tomb was built. Timur Shah was later buried in here. The mausoleum was heavily damaged during the

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. The building and its gardens were fully restored with the aid of the

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in 2012. On 19 October 2012,

Hamed Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Republi ...

, president at the time re-opened the mausoleum.

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Old image of the tomb
Buildings and structures in Kabul Burial sites of the Durrani dynasty {{afghanistan-stub

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