Tombs of Abdullah Khan
¤ Tombs of Abdullah Khan and
his Wife
Another tomb is that of Abd Allah Khan’s wife. The Khan was the
father of the Sayyid brothers who, after Aurangzeb’s death, went
into the business of making emperors, starting with Bahadur Shah Zafar
I. Abd Allah Khan’s wife is buried in a white marble tomb without
a roof. Built on a raised platform accessed by four steps, it is a
simple edifice with arches filled in with lattice work with four slim
minarets on each end of the rectangular roof.
A plaque in the nearby Shaikh Ala al Din’s tomb dates this
shrine to 1702-03AD. It seems that this plaque was originally embedded
in Allah Khan’s wife’s tomb and was later removed from here,
for it refers to the demise of a woman. A couple of other inscriptions
mention that another mosque and a garden were built along with this
mosque, of which neither survives. Abd Allah Khan himself is buried in
a tomb within this complex. He died in 1710 and his sons built this
tomb as a tribute to their father.
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