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Salt Mosque, Khewra Salt Mine

A small open mosque with low walls and a minaret built from salt bricks that glow orange from lights inside, in a dark tunnel of the Khewra Salt Mine, Pakistan.
Artwork FileKhewra, Pakistan

Salt Mosque, Khewra Salt Mine

SeenApr 2019

Khewra Salt Mine · Khewra, Jhelum District, Punjab

Photo: Khubabshinwari / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), as published on Street Art Utopia.

Inside Pakistan’s Khewra Salt Mine stands a small mosque built of rock-salt bricks in different shades. The Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) says its hollow salt-brick walls cast a captivating shadow when they are lit. Source Checked

Seen Apr 2019: Zameen.com described the mosque on 3 April 2019. Our photo’s camera data says 20 January 2018, while Commons gives 14 May 2020. PMDC still lists the mosque among the mine’s sights. Source Source Source Conflicting

💡 4 things to know

  1. Bricks of saltPMDC describes a mosque made of different shades of rock-salt bricks. Source Checked
  2. Hollow, lit wallsIts hollow salt-brick walls, when illuminated, cast what PMDC calls a captivating shadow. Source Checked
  3. White, pink and redZameen.com says the bricks come in the mine’s white, pink and red salts, lit by lights hidden in recesses along the walls. Source Reported
  4. One of many sightsPMDC lists the mosque among the wonders inside the mine, next to brine ponds and a chamber of translucent pink salt. Source Checked

📍 Where it is

Khewra Salt Mine, Khewra, north of Pind Dadan Khan, Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan. Source Source Checked

Open in Maps

Opens a map of Khewra Salt Mine. The mosque is underground, so there is no Street View of it.

🗓️ Sightings

  1. 201820 Jan

    Salt mosque photographed (camera date)

  2. 20193 Apr

    Zameen.com describes the mosque

Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.

🗞️ In the sources

Pakistan Mineral Development CorporationTourist page

“A majestic mosque made of different shades of rock salt bricks has been erected with hollow walls of salt bricks when illuminated casts a captivating shadow.”

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✅ The facts

Location
Inside Khewra Salt Mine Source Source Checked
Material
Rock-salt bricks in different shades Source Source Checked
Walls
Hollow salt-brick walls Source Checked
Lighting
Lights hidden in recesses along the walls Source Reported
Name
Badshahi Mosque, according to Zameen.com Source Reported
Minarets
Two, according to Zameen.com Source Reported
Builder and year
Not given in the sources we found Source Unconfirmed
Photographed
14 May 2020 (Commons date) or 20 January 2018 (camera data) Source Conflicting

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