The mosque and tomb of Ghulam Hussain Hazratji Baba (a 17th century saint), Kandahar, Afghanistan, 1880.
Photo by Benjamin Simpson.
The tombs are marked at either end with a tall marble stones and decorated with black and white pebbles.
Original caption : "Tombs of Hazratji and Shere Ali's father". Source
Sher Ali's father i.e. Dost Muhammad Khan is buried in Herat, not Kandahar.
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Mosque of Ghulam Hazratji, 1840 (c), by James Rattray. Original caption: "Mosque of Goolaum Hoossein Huzrut-Jee, the Great Prophet of the Afghauns, and the Tombs of the Kings at Kandahar". Plate 30 from Scenery, Inhabitants and Costumes of Afghanistan, engraved by R. Carrick. Source |
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