Site Name: Naurangabad
Date: ca. 1600-1699 CE
Subject: General view


This Kos Minar is a Mughal-period octagonal
distance marker located in agricultural fields to the north of the Tarn
Taran–Kapurthala Road in Naurangabad, Tarn Taran district of Punjab, with a
rest house situated to its west. Constructed in the seventeenth century, it is
built of lakhori bricks set in lime mortar. The monument is listed as protected
by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Archaeology and Museums, Punjab and has
some surface deterioration, vegetation growth, and limited physical access.