Miani Sahib Graveyard
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| Miani Sahib Graveyard | |
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میانی صاحب قبرستان | |
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| Established | Mughal era (16th–17th century) |
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| Type | Public Muslim cemetery |
| Owned by | Miani Sahib Graveyard Committee |
| Size | 1,206 kanal (60 ha; 149 acre) |
| No. of graves | 300,000+ |
The Miani Sahib Graveyard (Urdu: میانی صاحب قبرستان) is the largest graveyard in the city of Lahore, Pakistan.[1] It is in the centre of Lahore.[2] Its origins date back to the Mughal era, making it one of the oldest graveyards in the region.
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Miani Sahib Graveyard occupies around 1,206 Kanal area (60 hectares, 149 acres) of land and has a capacity of approximately 300,000 graves. It is administered by the Miani Sahib Graveyard Committee (MSGC), which was formed on 31 May 1962.[3]
Gravediggers at the cemetery routinely bury the bodies of the newly deceased in plots that go unvisited.[2]
Notable interments
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- Ilm-ud-din
- Saghar Siddiqui
- Hakim Ahmad Shuja
- Anwar Kamal Pasha
- Shaukat Thanvi
- Khwaja Khurshid Anwar
- Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed
- Saadat Hassan Manto
- Agha Hashar Kashmiri
- Wasif Ali Wasif
- Syed Wajid Ali
- Ihsan Danish
- Muhammad Pervaiz Malik
- Dawood Ghaznavi
- Pervaiz Waheed Sheikh
See also
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Miani Sahib Graveyard.
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