Mosque of Nawab Imam-ud-Din Khan

         This mosque is situated in Mihama Chele ka Hammam.  It is a very splendid and imposing building.  The founder was Nawab Sheikh Imam-ud-din Khan, son of Sheikh Ghulam Muhy-ud-din, the Sikh governor of Kashmir better known to English readers for his rebellion in Kashmir, when that territory was made over to Maharaja Gulab Singh.  He subsequently allied himself with the British, and assisted Sir Herbert Edwardes with a contingent of troops, and fought on the side of the British against the rebel Mulraj, of Multan notoriety.  The Sheikh was a man of literary attainments.  He built this fine mosque in 1266 A.H. It is one story high, and the passage to it is by a flight of steps which open on to a spacious court-yard.  The domes are graceful,  and the arches leading to the interior hall stately and picturesque.  In front of the central arch the following chronogram is inscribed on a marble stone:- 

            Imam-ud-din Khan, the Nawab of high dignity,

            Built a mosque acceptable to the heart.

            When I searched for the date of foundation, the invisible voice from heaven said-Verily this is the House of God. 

            Around the interior of the central dome are inscribed the following verses giving the date of foundation:- 

            How excellent is the Nawab of high dignity, who, with Divine aid,

            And with his knowledge of God, built this mosque.

            What a mosque the temple of holy men, the church of the pious

            The place of the bounty of God and of His Grace and Glory

            The founder of this edifice has acquired the blessings of both worlds,

            And with the gold which is transitory, purchased the ever lasting wealth of thw world to come;

            For the year of its foundation the heavenly voice, having destroyed the strength of the enemies, said,

            In the world a second Kaba has been built by Imam-ud-din.