Site Name: Tarn Taran (Leprosy Colony)
Date: ca. 1600-1699 CE
Subject: View of the upper part of the kos minar


This Kos Minar is a Mughal-period octagonal
distance marker located in the Shri Ram temple complex in Tarn Taran (Leprosy
Colony) in Punjab. Constructed in the seventeenth century, it is built of
lakhori bricks set in lime mortar. The monument unprotected, survives in fair
condition, with plaster intact on the lower portion and exposed brickwork
visible on the upper section.