Lahori Gate
The Lahori Gate is located within Walled City of Lahore in Lahore, Punjab,
Pakistan. Lahori Gate is also located on northern wall of Walled City of
Delhi, Shahjahanabad, in India and led to the road from Delhi to Lahore. The
name is also spelled Lohari Gate.
Lahore
Lahori Gate and the Chandni Chowk behind it comprise the oldest arterial
route in the Walled City of Lahore built by Akbar the great. Qutbuddin Aibak,
the first Muslim ruler of the Subcontinent is buried just outside this gate.
Caravans and travellers coming from Multan used to enter the city from this
gate. Behind Lahori Gate also, once stood a brick fort called Kacha Kot
probably the first fortified city of Lahore founded by Malik Ayyaz.
Among the few city gates that British Government cared to reconstruct, only
Lahori Gate retained its original form. During Mughal period, the two famous
divisions of the Walled City, namely Guzar Bahar Khan and Guzar Machhi Hatta,
were served by this Gate. During the anarchaic rule of the 18th century, all
the city gates, except Lahori Gate & two others were walled up.
Delhi
The walled city of Delhi (known as Shahjahanabad) in India was built by
Shahjahan, grandson of Akbar, who also built the Taj Mahal in Agra.
Lahori Gate is located on northern wall of Walled city of Delhi in India and
led to the road from Delhi to Lahore. Caravans and travellers coming from
Lahore and Punjab used to enter the Delhi city from this gate. The walls do
not exist now and the Lahori Gate also does not exist. However, the place
where it stood is still called Lahori Gate, and area Lahori Bazaar.
A road from Lahori Gate leads to Chandni Chowk, the main bazar of old Delhi
and ends at the northern gate of the Red Fort. This gate of the Red Fort is
also called Lahore Gate. Later a very wide wall was built in front of Lahore
Gate so that the insides of the Red Fort may not be visible to all and
sundry from Chandni Chowk.
The Prime Minister of India unfurls the national flag at this wall in front
of Lahore Gate of Red Fort and delivers his annual address to the nation on
the independence day, 15 August.
Getting There
The nearest airport is Indira
Gandhi International Airport (IATA: DEL, ICAO: VIDP), situated in Palam,
15 km (9.3 mi) south-west of the New Delhi railway station and 16 km (9.9
mi) from New Delhi city centre.
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