The Badshahi mosque (Punjabi, Urdu) or "of the King mosque" in Lahore, commissioned by the sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673, is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world.
Design passion, the beauty and grandeur of the Mughal era, it is the most famous of Lahore and a major tourist attraction.Able to accommodate 5,000 worshippers in its main prayer room and an another 95 000 in his court and arcades, it remained the largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (a period of 313 years), then surpassed in size by the completion of the Faisal of Islamabad mosque.
Today, it remains the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) of Mecca, Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (the mosque of the Prophet) in Medina, the mosque of Hassan II in Casablanca and the Faisal of Islamabad mosque.
To appreciate its large size, the four minarets of the Badshahi mosque are higher than those of the Taj Mahal of 13.9 ft (4.2 m) and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can adapt within the Court of 278 784 m2 (25,899.9 m2), of the Badshahi mosque, which is the highest court of mosque in the world.
In 1993, the Government of Pakistan has recommended the inclusion of the mosque Badshahi as a World Heritage Site in the list of UNESCO World Heritage, where it has been included in the indicative list of Pakistan for a possible inclusion on the list of world heritage by the UNESCO
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