Badshahi Mosque Lahore, Pakistan

Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: بادشاھی مسجد), or "Royal Mosque" in Lahore, the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb commissioned the sixth in 1671 and was completed in 1673, is the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque largest in the world. Representative of the passion of beauty and grandeur of the Mughal period is the most famous landmark and tourist attraction in Lahore.

Able to host 5000 praying that the main prayer hall, and in addition to 95 000 in the hotel courtyard and arcades, was the largest mosque in the world from 1673 to 1986 (more than 313 years), exceeded in size by the end Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. Today, it is still the second largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fifth largest mosque in the world after the Masjid al-Haram (Grand Mosque) in Mecca, al-Masjid al-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque) in Medina, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca and Faisal Mosque in Islamabad.

To appreciate its size, the four minarets of Badshahi Mosque is 13.9 feet (4.2 m) larger than the Taj Mahal and the main platform of the Taj Mahal can be embedded within the FT 278 784 m (25899.9 m 2) of the Badshahi Mosque court, the court is the world's largest mosque.

In 1993, the Government of Pakistan has recommended the inclusion of Badshahi Mosque, as a World Heritage site of UNESCO World Heritage List, where it is incorporated in Pakistan in a preliminary list of the possible designation of the World Heritage List of UNESCO.