World Tourism Day Karachi Mohatta Palace

The Mohatta Palace is a museum located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Designed by Ahmed Hussain Agha, the palace was built in 1927 in the posh seaside locale of Clifton as the summer home of Shivratan Mohatta, a Hindu Marwari businessman from what is now the modern-day Indian state of Rajasthan. The palace was built in the tradition of stone pala…
The Mohatta Palace is a museum located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Designed by Ahmed Hussain Agha, the palace was built in 1927 in the posh seaside locale of Clifton as the summer home of Shivratan Mohatta, a Hindu Marwari businessman from what is now the modern-day Indian state of Rajasthan. The palace was built in the tradition of stone palaces of Rajasthan, using pink Jodhpur stone in combination with the local yellow stone from nearby Gizri. Mohatta could enjoy this building for only about two decades before the partition of India, after which he left Karachi for the new state of India.
  • Architectural style: Indo-Saracenic architecture
  • Completed: 1927
  • Town or city: Karachi
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Client: Shivratan Chandraratan Mohatta
  • Structural system: Pink Jodhpur stone in combination with the local yellow stone from Gizri.
  • Size: 18,500 sq ft (1,720 m²)

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