Badshahi Mosque

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  Location
  Lahore, Pakistan
  Affiliation
  Islam
  Province
  Punjab
  District
  Lahore
  Year consecrated
  1671
  Ecclesiastical status
  Mosque
  Leadership
  Aurangzeb
  Architectural description
  Architectural type
  Mosque
  Architectural style
  Islamic, Mughal
  Year completed
  1673
  Dome(s)
  3
  Minaret(s)
  8 (4 square, 4 smaller octagonal)
  Minaret height
  54 m (180 ft) (square),
  
  The Badshahi Mosque or the 'Emperor's Mosque', in Lahore is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world. It is Lahore's most famous landmark and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty, passion and grandeur of the Mughal era.
  Capable of accommodating 10,000 worshippers in its main prayer hall and 100,000 in its courtyard and porticoes, it remained the largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (a period of 313 years), when overtaken in size by the completion of the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it remains the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.
  To appreciate its large size, the four minarets of the Badshahi Mosque are 13.9 ft (4.2 m) taller than those of the Taj Mahal and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can fit inside the 278,784 sq ft (25,899.9 m2) courtyard of the Badshahi Mosque, which is the largest mosque courtyard in the world.