Monday, 20 June 2022

The mosque and tomb of Ghulam Hussain Hazratji Baba, Kandahar




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.



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



 Tombs of Hazratgi & Shere Ali's father [Kandahar]. (bl.uk)




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