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Wazir Khan Mosque

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The Wazir Khan Mosque is a seventeenth century Mughal mosque in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It was commissioned by Wazir Khan, then governor of Punjab, during the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, as part of an ensemble of buildings that also included the nearby Shahi Hammam baths. Construction began in 1634 and was completed in 1641.

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