Efforts to restore and preserve Wazir Khan mosque have been ongoing since 2009; the “expected completion date” continues to move further into the future.
Its 17th century CE construction was a much speedier affair; building commenced in 1634 and was completed in 1641.
It is the subcontinent’s most elaborately decorated Mughal era mosque.
The facade and external gate pictured above are certainly “impressive”, but they are definitely not this particular mosque’s most impressive feature, nor its most beautiful/elegant, nor its best-preserved/restored.
As the next several chapters will reveal, “you ain’t seen nothing, yet!”, relatively speaking.
The real treasures do not “front the street”.