Oct 18, 2014

Ruins of Pir Ghaib Observatory and Battery and Hindu Rao's House in the Distance in Delhi Ridge - After Indian Mutiny, 1858

Ruins of Pir Ghaib Observatory and Hindu Rao's House in the Distance in Delhi Ridge - Delhi 1858


Ruins of Pir Ghaib Observatory and Battery and Hindu Rao's House in the Distance

Pir - Ghaib Observatory
A 14th century hunting lodge and Observatory built by Feroz Shah Tughlak.
Know  more about this observatory here
View a modern photo of this monument

British Library wrongly documented it as Jantar Mantar observatory. This photo also incorrectly inserted in the Wikipedia page of Jantar Mantar

Source: British Library and The J. Paul Getty Museum