HAUNTED PLACES IN LAHORE - MODEL TOWN HAUNTED HOUSES IN LAHORE

 

HAUNTED PLACES IN LAHORE - MODEL TOWN HAUNTED HOUSES IN LAHORE

WHY MODEL TOWN LAHORE IS HAUNTED - A BRIEF NOTE - WITH PHOTO GALLERY

In Model Town:

"In Model Town lies a huge house, painted in white, now in a bad condition as it has been deserted since many years, sources say that no one is willing to live in the house as many paranormal activities have been carried out, other than the typical door slamming by itself, immense cries of women have been heard. Though sources are not able to figure out why is that so, might be any other sort of tragedy or other dark secrets that lie within the house."

In some cases at least, these houses, scattered across the city, seem to have become playgrounds for young people, who dare each other to visit them, or walk in collectively after dark, attempting to call up the ghosts. At city schools and elite colleges, groups of teenagers gather data about haunted homes, and then visit them at night. One such house stands in the Cantonment area, and has been regarded locally as haunted since its owner was murdered a few years ago. "No one wants to purchase such a property. There are supernatural beings found under trees at the house. Sometimes they take the form of snakes," says Adnan, a local shopkeeper.

 

 

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TWO HOUSES ARE HAUNTED IN MODEL TOWN LAHORE, ONE IS IN BLOCK A & OTHER IS IN BLOCK F, ACCORDING TO ABOVE FACEBOOK PAGES.

THE QUESTION IS:-

WHY SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED IN MODEL TOWN LAHORE?

THE ANSWER IS:-

There are many haunted houses in Lahore. You would shocked to know that many houses are haunted in Model Town Lahore. A Shamshan Ghat is a platform designed for the cremation of bodies of people belonging to Hindu and Sikh faiths. Ideally, a Shamshan Ghat is located on river bank so that the ashes of the body can be disposed off in accordance with the tradition. At Partition, Lahore had 11 Hindu crematoria, the main ones being in Model Town, Taxali gate and near the Krishna Mandar. But with the passage of time these buildings were occupied and the new owners turned them into residences.

 

https://www.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories/read-contributions/life-back-then/355-hindus-sikhs-and-muslims-in-pre-1947-lahore

Editor's note: This story originally appeared at: 

http://www.apnaorg.com/columns/ahameed/column-40.html

 

There were 300,000 Hindus and Sikhs living in Lahore as Independence approached. By August 19, 1947, that number had sunk to 10,000, and by the end of the month to just 1,000. The majority moved to India. Many were killed, though there is no knowing their number. Some neighbourhoods of the city were entirely Hindu and Sikh, others were mixed, while some were solely Muslim. Gumti Bazaar was a purely Hindu neighbourhood, with the exception of one resident: Maulana Salahuddin Ahmed, editor of Adabi Duniya, the leading Urdu literary journal of its time. Outside the gated city, other predominantly Hindu neighbourhoods included Krishen Nagar, Sant Nagar, Rajgarh (Kamani Kaushal lived here), Ram Galli, Nisbet Road, Qila Gujjar Singh, Shah Alami and Gowalmandi, while the population of Beadon Road and Nicholson Road was a Hindu-Sikh-Muslim mix. Ichhra and Model Town lay outside the city as it then was. Ichhra, a Muslim-majority area, was said to be the original Lahore, the very site where the foundation of the city had been laid by Lahoo, a son of Raja Ram Chander Ji.

Model Town was founded by rich and upper middle-class Hindus and had few Muslim residents. Every house was fronted by a large lawn with lush fruit trees, especially ones that bore mangoes in summer. There was also a Model Town bus service that took you into the city, right up to Serai Rattan Chand, Gowalmandi and Shah Alami.

The residents of Model Town, who owned their spacious houses, were retired judges, rich businessmen, traders and upmarket store-owners. Many high court judges, doctors and engineers had also moved to Model Town from the city. Included among the residents of this best laid-out residential estate of Lahore were college professors and officers of the civil service. The famous communist leader BPL Bedi, who had studied at British and German universities, lived here. His son Kabir Bedi became a famous actor in post-independence India.

03-08-2018 (added)

Title:-

Mandir in Model Town Lahore
Shiv Temple
Shivala of model town Lahore
Hindu Temple in Model Town Lahore

Purpose:-

Hindu Worship Building

Location:-

Model Town Circular Rd, Block D Model Town, Lahore, Punjab

31°29'23.37"N, 74°19'7.12"E

Year of Construction:-

Not accurately known, it is said that it was constructed somewhere between years, 1920-25.

Brief Synthesis on Architecture of Temple:-

The current temple was considered one of examples of modern architecture of its time. On ground floor you will see column beams of bricks present this element further reinforced with steel bars. Modern Kiln Bricks used in ground floor construction, which further plastered with lime. The structure consists of single story square “Sanctum” which was designed for placing the housing deity. In sanctum room corner squinches portion filled with extended flower bouquet element made of lime. Around all four sides of sanctum assembly hall for devotees present in Hindu terminology it is called “Ayatana”

From square sanctum structure main temple curvilinear spire (tower, sikhara) is raised, which is common type of northern Indian Shrines (Latinas). For construction of curvilinear spire small dimensions bricks used which are different from ground floor of temple.

A crowning ornament on the top of the shikara is present; it is called “amalaka” in Hindu terminology this support embedded spire which might be gold plated at start of its construction. On external walls of temples you will see double facet a vertical offset projection. In Hindu temple architecture it is called “ratha”. In front of main temple building there is dome shaped structure present, on first impression it looks like a Sikh Samadhi. However, it is said that this building was used by Pandit of the temple as residence.

Haunted and Paranormal Activities:-

This mandir main complex is closed with 15 ft high walls on three sides, whereas on fourth side there is a girl school building present, the only way to reach this mandir was left from inside of this school in form of narrow path. The mandir site is abandoned for more than half century nobody normally enter inside. Interestingly except my blog you will not find any picture of this mandir which has taken from inside. I went peacefully and did detailed photography to document the place. 

When I came out, the watchman of adjacent school started conversation with me, I was appreciating at least a boundary wall is constructed to protect the place from further collapsing. But his answer left me in a paradox condition that boundary wall is not made for protection or conservation of this site. Adjacent neighbours in recent years have observed serious paranormal activities happening inside this temple. I wished to accuse the watchman that he should have told this before allowing us to visit but I thought nothing is done now.

Integrity and Current Condition:-

The current condition is very bad the ground floor column, beam and slab were demolished in response of Babri Masjid Shaheed in 1992; the structure is dangerous to visit from inside and could be collapsed at any time

History of Model Town:- By Parkash Tandon.

FOR the first generation of professional men in the Punjab it had been the natural thing after retirement to go back to the place they came from, and spend their last years as respected elder, village or small town society. But father’s generation had grown away from their background, for them it was a question to find a congenial place to settle down.

There is only ONE MUSLIM’S GRAVEYARD and A MOSQUE in this society in 1925.

Model Town was a place, the like of which had never been and will never be seen again. It was almost entirely populated by retired government officials, who all addressed each other as Rai Sahib, Rai Bahadur, Khan Sahib or Khan Bahadur, Sardar Sahib or Sardar Bahadur.

Somebody had conceived the idea in 1925 of acquiring a big tract of jungle wasteland, a few miles out of Lahore, dividing it up into plots, and constituting it as The Model Town Co-operative Society. Everyone who bought a plot became a member with a vote in the Society. The plan of the town was completely geometrical. It had a series of concentric circular roads, crossed by four main roads at right angles, and smaller roads in between, all beginning from the inner circle and dividing the area into equal segments. The roads had no name, but the blocks were alphabetically numbered. To the old school of thought this was quite enough to paint on the gate. Later arrivals started giving their homes poetical names.

 

The big circular area in the middle was common property and traversed only by footpaths. Only thorny shrubs grew there, but it was intended to become a public park. On its periphery were marked the sites for library, school, barat ghar for housing wedding parties, and other public institutions. Only the club, the hospital and dispensary, and the women’s club had been built so far. There were several private schools. Special areas were set apart for markets and shops. There were a mosque and a temple, perhaps the most attractive examples of modem religious architecture I have seen in India, and a Sikh Gurdwara. For practical measure there were also cremation and burial grounds.

http://aliusmanbaig.blogspot.com/2018/08/mandir-in-model-town-lahore.html

Writer's address:-

our address was 12G while the house opposite was 12F in Model town.

 

  

 

ماڈل ٹاؤن لاہور اردو میں

جب "پاکستان" بنا تھا تو "لاہور" میں "3" لاکھ ہندو رہایش پزیر تھا۔ تقسیم ہند کے بعد یہ سب کے سب ہندوستان چلے گیے۔ یہاں صرف 10 ہزار باقی رہ گئے تھے۔ جو 1950۔ 55ء کے قریب صرف 1 ہزار کی تعداد میں رہ گئے۔ لاہور کے وسط میں ایک سوسائیٹی بنائ گئ۔ یہ سوسائٹی پرایویٹ تھی اور 1921 میں بنی تھی۔ اس کا نقشہ فرانسیسی آرکیٹیکٹ نے بنایا تھا۔ اس سوسائیٹی کو LDA نے 1975 میں aquire کیا۔ اس کا نام "ماڈل ٹاؤن" رکھا گیا۔ یہ سوسائیٹی ماڈل کی شکل کی بنائ گئ ہے، اسی لیے اسے ماڈل ٹاؤن بولتے ہیں۔ ایک جیسے شکل کے بلاکس بنائے گئے ہیں۔ لاہور کے مندرجہ ذیل ان علاقوں میں ہندو کثرت سے رہتے تھے:-

ساندہ، کرشن نگر، سنت نگر، دھرمپورہ، لکشمی چوک، وغیرہ۔ انہی علاقوں کے صرف امیر ہندو اور سکھ ماڈل ٹاؤن میں شفٹ ہوگیے کیونکہ یہ انگریزوں نے ہندوؤں اور سکھوں کے لیے ہی بنائ تھی۔ اس سوسایٹی میں صرف "ایک مسجد" تھی اور "مندر، گردوارے کافی تھے۔ جبکہ "آٹھ شمشان گھاٹوں" کی زمین رکھی گئئ تھی، جو تقریباً ہر بلاک میں "ایک" تھی۔ اس سوسائیٹی میں اس وقت کل آٹھ بلاک تھے۔ بلاک اے سے ایچ۔ باقی بلاک ماڈل ٹاؤن ایکسٹینشن کے نام سے LDA نے 1975 کے بعد بنائے۔

وہاں صرف گنتی کے ہی" مسلمانوں" کو رہنے کی اجازت تھی۔ مسلم برادری کا صرف "ایک ہی قبرستان" تھا۔ جب یہ تمام ہندو ہجرت کر گیے تو انکے مندر گردوارے اور شمشان گھاٹوں کو اس سوسایٹی کی اس وقت کی انتظامیہ نے عام شہریوں کو بیچ دیا یعنی نیلام کردیا۔ جنہوں نے انہیں مسمار کرکے وہاں گھر اور مارکیٹیں بنا لیں۔ جب گھر و مارکیٹیں بن گیئں تو ایسی مارکیٹیں اور مکانات جو شمشان گھاٹوں پر تعمیر ہوئیں وہاں "جنات اور بدروحوں" نے ڈیرے ڈال دیے۔ وہ گھر و عمارتیں 1960 کی دہائ میں بنائی گئی تھیں۔ وہ آج تک خالی پڑی ہیں۔ وہاں رہایش ہی ناممکن ہوگئ۔ تاہم کچھ عمارتوں میں رہائش ہے۔ یہی وجہ ہے کہ ماڈل ٹاؤن کے اکثر مکانات و کچھ عمارتیں خالی پڑی ہیں۔ جب پاکستان بنا تھا تو لاہور میں 13 شمشان گھاٹ تھے اب صرف 2 شمشان گھاٹ ہی "آپریشنل" ہیں۔ جن میں سے ایک "بادشاہی مسجد" کے آس پاس ہے جو "200 سال" پرانا ہے اور دوسرا دریا راوی کے کنارے "سگیاں پل" کے پاس۔ یہ سن 2006ء سے تا حال بند ہے۔ اس پہلے وہاں بھی "مردوں کی راکھ" بہائی جاتی رہی ہے۔ یہ بھی انگریز دور کا بنا ہے۔ سن 2006ء تک آپریشنل تھا۔ اس کی چار دیواری بھی اب نہیں ہے۔ یہاں تک پہنچنا انتہائی دشوارگزار ہے۔ پہلے بھی دشوار تھا۔ یہاں تک ایک کچہ راستہ جاتا ہے جو آج تک کچہ ہے اور خطرناک ہے۔ یہاں رات کو ڈاکے پڑ جاتے ہیں اور کچھ لوگوں کے قتل تک ہوئے ہیں۔ اس شمشان گھاٹ میں اب بدروحوں اور آسیب کا ڈیرہ ہے۔ یہاں سے رات کو طرح طرح کی آوازیں سنائی دیتی اور عجیب و غریب حرکات و سکنات محسوس کی جاتی ہیں۔ یہ لاہور کا ایک آسیبی شمشان گھاٹ بن چکا ہے۔ جبکہ ابھی حال ہی میں 2018ء میں تیسرے شمشان گھاٹ کی زمین "بابو صابو موٹروے انٹرچینج" کے پاس حکومت نے لی ہے۔ دراصل دیکھا جائے تو اب بھی صرف دو ہی شمشان گھاٹ آپریشنل ہیں۔ ایک بادشاہی مسجد کے پاس اور دوسرا نیا جو بابو صابو انٹر چینج کے پاس بنا ہے۔ چتا ایک دن میں نہیں جلتی۔ اس کو مکمل جلنے میں 5 سے 7 دن لگتے ہیں۔ پھر کہیں جا کر گوشت جلتا ہے۔ اس کے بعد چتا کی ہڈیاں کسی خالی مٹی کی مٹکی میں ڈال کر کچھ دن کو کسی اسٹور میں رکھ کر چھوڑ دیتے ہیں۔ پھر بعد میں باری آنے پر اس کو ہتھوڑوں سے توڑ کر ٹکڑے کرتے ہیں اور ان ٹکڑوں کو مٹی کے تیل سے جلاتے ہیں۔ بعض لوگ گھی سے جلاتے ہیں۔ اس طرح ہڈیاں بھی راکھ بن جاتی ہیں۔ چتاؤں کی راکھ کو دریا میں بہا دیا جاتا ہے اور بعض لوگ انڈیا بھیج دیتے ہیں۔ پاکستان کے تقریباً تمام دریاؤں میں راکھ بہائی جاتی ہے۔ سب سے زیادہ راکھ دریا سندھ میں بہائی جاتی ہے۔

ماڈل ٹاؤن لاھور، ڈی بلاک کا آسیب زدہ مندر