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Mughal Garden in Kashmir was a favourite of the
Mughal emperors who visited it as often as they could. Cool and refreshing
after the plains of North India where the business of governance kept
them, they planted gardens with stepped terraces and flowing water courses.
When they rested in their gardens, They treamt they were inparadise.Cheshmashahi
is the first Mughal garden you will pass after Nehru Park. Built at a
height above the city, its views are as stupendous as its layout.
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Visa Info Passport Info The smallest of Srinagar’s Mughal gardens,
Cheshmashahi has only three terraces in addition to a natural spring of
water enclosed in a stone pavilion.
The next garden along the road that encircles the Dal is the Nishat, built
by Empress Nur Jahan’s brother Asaf Khan. The largest of the gardens,
Nishat has several terraces, a central water course and a majestic site
between the Dal and the Zabarwan hills.
The third Mughal garden – the Shalimar was planted by Jehangir, the
Mughal emperor, whose love of Kashmir was legendary. Shaded by magnificent
chinar trees, the Shalimar is a series of stone pavilions and flowing
water with paint-box bright flower beds.
Across the Dal from Shalimar is the mosque of Hazratbal, the only one
of its kind architecturally in Kashmir. Made of white marble with a dome
and a minaret, Hazratbal is the repository of a single hair of the Prophet
Mohammed, exhibited to the public on certain days of the year.
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