Mughal Gardens Wah Near Taxila, Pakistan

Located approximately 50 km north-west of twin cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad, Wah Gardens (also known as Mughal Gardens Wah) is not only a tourist attraction but also a complex of significant interest for students of history, archeology, and architecture. No sooner you enter the gate of Wah Gardens everything seems to come to life; the trees, the blue water in the pool with plentiful ‘Mahasher’ fish, the waterways, the walkways, the aged cement structures that once were the reserved for princes, princesses and kings. You feel like being observed by ghosts of time and spirits of people that once used this place as a transit resort for their regal travels between Kabul and Delhi, the capital of magnificent Mughal Dynasty.

Raja Maan Singh, Court Chief of Emperor Akbar and brother in law of Emperor Jehangir, is said to have commenced ground-breaking work at the Gardens Site. Emperor Jehangir, in his autobiography titled “Tozak-e-Jahangir” has mentioned his three days stay at this site in April 1607. He has especially mentioned the cleanliness and purity of water and the significant size of fish in the ponds here.

Emperor Shah Jehan stayed at Wah Gardens in 1639 during his visit to Afghanistan. It is believed that during this visit he tasked his central construction department to take on development work at the Gardens site. The famous Ahmed Maamar Lahori, an architect of global repute at that time, was assigned the task to plan and supervise the work at the site. Lahori is said to have prepared the layout of royal quarters, bathrooms, court areas and inns at the site. The completion of work took about two years. The major construction was done in stone and cement and limestone was used for plastering and decorations. Overall the site was prepared as a transit resort and does not have the usual palatial look found elsewhere in the Mughal constructions.

The main beauty of the garden stems from intelligent placement of central pond with lot of fish, water channels and tree plantation. Plantation includes Peepal and Saroo (Thuja) and some local shrubs and bushes. The panorama around the garden is spectacular.

This video presentation is based on pictures taken by our special correspondent Iqbal Khan to the Wah Gardens during the month of September 2019.
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