Lahore Fort: Diwan-e-Khass (Court of Private Audience)
Lahore Fort started life as a defensive wall on the banks of River Ravi by the earliest settlers who founded Lahore. It was attacked, damaged, demolished, and rebuilt into various structures several times over, until it acquired its present general form under Emperor Akbar in 1566. Succeeding emperors, Sikh conquerors, and British colonists used the fort as the seat of their governance, and added their architectural influences to the citadel to give it its present configuration.
Diwan-e-Khass was built by Emperor Shah Jehan and was the equivalent of contemporary cabinet rooms where Mughal Emperors held meetings with their ministers, governors, and other noblemen who helped them rule the empire.
For more detailed information on Lahore Fort, please see: sites.ualberta.ca/~rnoor/lahore_fort.html, and
Lahore Fort: Diwan-e-Khass (Court of Private Audience)
Lahore Fort started life as a defensive wall on the banks of River Ravi by the earliest settlers who founded Lahore. It was attacked, damaged, demolished, and rebuilt into various structures several times over, until it acquired its present general form under Emperor Akbar in 1566. Succeeding emperors, Sikh conquerors, and British colonists used the fort as the seat of their governance, and added their architectural influences to the citadel to give it its present configuration.
Diwan-e-Khass was built by Emperor Shah Jehan and was the equivalent of contemporary cabinet rooms where Mughal Emperors held meetings with their ministers, governors, and other noblemen who helped them rule the empire.
For more detailed information on Lahore Fort, please see: sites.ualberta.ca/~rnoor/lahore_fort.html, and