Phool Hattan Wali Mosque

The Phool Hattan Wali Mosque ("mosque of the flower-sellers' lane") sits in the heart of Chowk Bazaar, named after the bazaar of flower sellers that once surrounded it. It is small, with a single low dome, a narrow tiled façade and a courtyard barely large enough for fifty worshippers, but the proportions are perfect and the early eighteenth-century blue-and-white kashi-kari is some of the finest surviving in the old city.

The mosque is easy to miss — set back behind a row of brassware shops — but it is one of the more atmospheric stops on a walk through the bazaar.

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A story
The mosque was financed by the Mughal emperor Farrukh Siyar (1713–1718). Childless and travelling through Multan, he asked a local fakir to pray for an heir; when an heir was born the emperor sent Rs 80,000 in gratitude, and the fakir used the money to build a mosque in the flower-sellers' lane where he had received the prayer request.