Hazuri Bagh

Hazuri Bagh (Urdu: حضوری باغ‬‎) is a garden in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, bounded through the Lahore fort to the east, Badshahi Mosque to the west, the Samadhi of Ranjit Singh to the north, and the Roshnai Gate to the south. The Serai Alamgiri caravanserai previously stood wherein Hazuri Bagh is now placed. in the centre of the park stands the Hazuri Bagh Baradari, built by way of Ranjit Singh in 1818 to have a good time his capture of the Koh-i-Noor diamond from Shuja Shah Durrani in 1813.

The garden became deliberate and built under the supervision of Faqir Azizuddin within the conventional Mughal fashion format. After its crowning glory, it's miles said, Ranjit Singh, at the notion of Jamadar Khushhal Singh, ordered that marble vandalized from numerous mausoleums of Lahore to assemble a baradari (pavilion) right here. This undertaking changed into given to Khalifa Nooruddin. elegant carved marble pillars help the baradari’s delicate cusped arches. The vital vicinity, in which Ranjit Singh held court, has a mirrored ceiling. each the garden and the baradari, initially a forty five-foot, 3-storey rectangular with a basement approached by means of fifteen steps, suffered significant harm in the course of the fratricidal Sikh wars and become handiest reclaimed and laid out according to the authentic plan during the British period. On 19 July 1932, the uppermost story collapsed and turned into by no means reconstructed.

every Sunday afternoon, humans accumulate within the gardens to listen reciters recite traditional Punjabi Qisse, which includes Heer Ranjha and Sassi Punnun, and other Punjabi Sufi poetry.

The tomb of Muhammad Iqbal lies throughout from the lawn outside of the Badshahi Mosque.

To make or maintain a non-public event at Huzuri Bagh, it's far one of the maximum steeply-priced places to preserve an event in Lahore it will value you around 25 Lac pak rupees (25,00,000) just for the reserving of the location. but Huzuri Bagh is an extremely good area to go to.