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he paid the Punjab. It differs from edifices of the kind by having 

 four minars of lofty proportions at each corner of the spacious 

 quadrangle, at the western extremity of which it stands, instead of 

 two on the northern and southern walls, as in the Jumraa Musjid 

 of Delhi which it otherwise resembles. The gateway on the eastern 

 side of the quadrangle now stands out isolated in handsome relief 

 at the top of a noble flight of steps, facing the western entrance of 

 the fort ; prudential motives having removed the cloistering on either 

 side so as to leave the terrace open to sight from the fort walls. 

 The mosque served, for upwards of forty and odd years, as a maga- 

 zine both to Hunjeet Singh and the British Government, but the 

 ordnance stores have, within the last three years, been removed 

 into the fort, and the mosque restored to the Musalmaus of Lahore. 

 Their gratitude might have assumed a painfully practical shape in 

 1857, had less vigorous councils prevailed than those which, on the 

 13th May in that year, saved the Punjab from an insurrection and 

 a mutiny. 



No. 4. — The Mosque of Wtjzeer Khan. 

 (Persian Inscription.) 



Translation. — Completed during the reign of Uboo'l-Moozuffur 

 the second, Sahibi Kiran Shah Jehau Badshah Ghazee. 



This sacred temple was founded by his devoted follower and 

 esteemed disciple and old servant Wuzeer Khan, 1044, Hijra, 

 A. D. 1634. 



This is one of the most elegant buildings of Lahore, ornamented 

 throughout in that beautiful tesselated style which the architects 

 of those days borrowed from the Chinese (workmen were brought 

 across the Himalaya to give it the true " Porcelain" character) and 

 which the men of the present day cannot even imitate, much less 

 equal. It has suffered very little at the hands of the followers of 

 Nanuk, whose intolerance should have taught patience at least to 

 the Mahomedan, though they desecrated its courts, and its pools 

 by killing swine and sprinkling the walls with their blood. 



No. 5. — A SMALL TESSELATED MOSQUE NEAR THE MOOCHEE GATE. 



(Persian laser ip Hon .) 

 Translation. — Zuhoor Bukhsh laid the foundation of this mosque, 

 Mahomed Salih completed it, A. H. 1072, (A. D. 1G61). 



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