The Miani Sahib
Graveyard (میانی صاحب قبرستان)
is the largest graveyard in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. It is in the centre
of Lahore. Its origins date back to the Mughal era, making it one of the oldest
graveyard in the region. Miani Sahib Graveyard occupies around 1,206
kanals (60 hectares, 149 acres) of land and has a capacity of
approximately 300,000 graves. It is administered by the Miani Sahib
Graveyard Committee (MSGC), which was formed on 31 May 1962.
The graveyard is
currently facing an acute shortage of space for new burials. As of 2009,
the government of Punjab has started an anti-encroachment drive to restore the
space occupied illegally. People of Lahore visit this graveyard to offer
'fateha' (a religious prayer) and lay flowers on the graves of their loved
ones. In 2013, generally speaking, people of Lahore feel that the
graveyard is being neglected for maintenance and needs some local government
attention.
Gravediggers
at the cemetery routinely bury the bodies of the newly deceased in plots that
go unvisited. This graveyard is more than 400 years old. Inside the graveyard,
strange voices and sounds can be heard. This graveyard is haunted by Muslim
ghosts. There are approximately 400 Muslims Ghosts inside the graveyard.
The Mysterious Reality of Souls andGhosts Has Also Been Witnessed InThis Haunted Graveyard By
The Gravediggers. Some Burialists
Also Witnessed By Eye Sight Few
Boys Of Different Horrible FacesWere Playing Hide & Seek @ 2:00 PM DAY TIME.What you will think if theywhitnessed in the MID NIGHT
The government has
decided to upgrade Miani Sahib graveyard on the pattern of the graveyard set up
by the Shehr-e-Kamoshan Authority. The facilities like deadbody's bath house,
ablution sitting points, parking of vehicles, Janazgah and others would also be
upgraded. These decisions were taken by Deputy Commissioner Sumair Ahmed Syed,
DG Strategic Reforms Unit Salman Sufi and Additional Advocate General Umer
Farooq after their joint visit to Miani Sahib Graveyard on Wednesday. Additional
Deputy Commissioner Lahore (Revenue) Tahir Farooq and Assistant Commissioner
City Abduallah Khurram Niazi were also present there. The DC said upgradation
work would soon be started. He also checked anti-dengue arrangements in the
graveyard and termed them satisfactory.
Other Information:
This historical
graveyard has existed in Lahore since Shahab ud Din Ghauri's times nearly 450
years ago. During his short rule Sher Shah Soori dedicated 40,000 kanals
to it. It is located in Mozang area of Lahore. It is the largest graveyard of
Asia where every year more than 10,000 people are still buried.
"Miani" word comes from Mian or a very wise and learned person. Many
people of my family, like my paternal grandfather and uncles, are buried here.
It is the final resting place of many famous poets, writers, politicians and
celebrities. You can also see the shrines of Hazrat Sheikh Tahir Bandagi and
Ghazi Ilm Din Shaheed here. Many famous families have booked their graves here
and have built boundaries around their family enclosures. I always feel a
strange calmness after visiting this city of the dead.