Following its completion in 1673, Lahore’s Badshahi Mosque remained the world’s biggest mosque/masjid for nearly three centuries.
Size-wise, it is now #3 in Pakistan.
Globally, it sits at the lower end of the “top 20”, or has recently lost that status.
Aesthetically, however, Badshahi Mosque is forever unlikely to have more than a very few peers.
All photos in this post and its sequel were taken from the finest of bookable vantage points – the Haveli Restaurant’s terrace.
As the next post will show, the “visual splendour” becomes even more jaw-dropping when the sun has set and the lights come on.