- J&K is known to house about 1, 25, 000 shivlings.
- Pahalgam houses one of the oldest Shiva temples that dates back to the
5th century.
- Peer Khoh is famed for its naturally formed Shiva lingam. Folklore
abounds that the Peer Khoh probably leads to an underground passage that
joins many other cave shrines or probably is a way out of the country.
- Pari Mahal was once a Buddhist monastery, which was eventually converted
into a royal observatory by Shah Jahan’s eldest son Dara Shikoh.
- Did you know that the same workers who had worked on Taj Mahal build
the Jamma Masjid!
- Did you know that you couldn’t enter the Vaishno Devi cave with any
leather item? You are stripped off all your leather products and items
before you enter the cave.
- The Raghunath Temple in Jammu is one of the oldest and largest temple
complexes in the whole of North India.
- Rebuilt after a fire in the 1960s, the Hazratbal Mosque has a unique
Arabian feel with its dazzling white dome and single slender minaret. It
contains Kashmir’s most scared relic - a hair from the beard of Prophet
Muhammad.
- The Mughals were avid landscape artists. Their gardens are timeless,
aesthetically brilliant and vast. Especially in Kashmir, the garden
patterns are juxtaposed with the serene landscape to create a blissful
effect.
- Of various Sufi shrines in Srinagar, Khanqah of Shah Hamadan is the
first mosque ever built.
- Spun from ibex hair, the Pashmina shawl has received all the recognition
due to the ban on the Shatoosh trade.
- Empress Josephine, wife of Napolean, is said to have owned some 400
shawls.
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