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No

Region
1 Punjab

General Development
local aartisans produced finest temples, there too
developed elegant mosques and tombs

no local art tradition there the style was less distinctive

foreign craftsmen found bringing the architectural

tradition

Unusual climatic conditions necessitated special

treatment of roofs

Typology

Characteristics

Architectural
Development

Multan was of Arab

Persian influence - 8th
Century

Buildings were
constructed mainly with
bricks; The bricks were
flat and thin

decoration in wooden the

manipulation of wood,
especially as the
doorways have
carved designs
resembling heavy tassels
and knotted fringes

Lahore- GhaznavideSaljuqian origin - 12th

Century

To relieve this timber and There were a group of

brick construction
five tombs constructed in
Multan were those of
saints
Among them the
important one is the
tomb of the saint ShahRukn- I -Alam

RUKN I ALAM S TOMB