The highly elaborate “mirror work” decorations on its walls and ceilings are the signature feature of the Sheesh Mahal.
Much less “showy”, but at least as beautiful, are the carved marble screens on its northern side.
As well as being lovely to look at – and to look through – these screens are very “practical”.
The southern hemisphere’s northerly winds are usually warming.
In the northern hemisphere they are usually cooling; this is further enhanced in Lahore’s case, because some of its northerly winds have made their way south (winds, remember, are named for the direction from which they blow) from some of “our” planet’s highest mountains.
The north-facing carved marble screens helped to cool the Sheesh Mahal.
You will more easily see their full beauty & intricacy if you zoom in on/enlarge the above two images. Each image shows different screens.
Lahore Fort’s Sheesh Mahal is very intimately connected to the much more famous “Mahal” which is pictured below.
This series’ next chapter will explain…
