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Mohatta Palace – is a famous attraction in Pakistan.
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Pakistan is full of great museums and attractions. If you still haven’t been here – you should start planning your trip straight away! Start by checking out things to do and places to visit on our search engine – museuly! It’s so easy, and you will save a lot of time and energy by doing that. museuly will save you money during your travel or vacation as well, as we work directly with attractions vendors – therefore providing you the cheapest tickets possible to desired destination. Among fun things to do in Pakistan, Mohatta Palace is one of the top tourist places! You will be amazed by great architecture, nature, local authenticity – everything combined in one place!

Mohatta Palace

Mohatta Palace in Pakistan

Introduction

Mohatta Palace is very popular among local residents of the city. It is a place that many tourists visit to see and simply enjoy the experience of being in the building. The local residents tend to like the establishment so much not only because of its attractiveness and distinct and unusual colour, but also because of its association with one of its previous residents, Mohtarma Fatima who is sister to Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.

Mohatta Palace sits on a large piece of land about 12,000 square yards. It was built in 1927 by a wealthy man in Karachi by the name Rai Bahadur Seth Shivratan Mohatta. The palace was built as a seaside home and features a combination of yellow Gizri stone and pink Jodhpur stone which are both locally available. It has a unique style of construction that features a combination of several styles including domes, balustrades, spandrels, railings and louvered shutters.

Mohatta Palace is actually the most fascinating place in Karachi. Shivratan Mohatta actually built the palace during his visit to Karachi for his holidays. The building was designed by Agha Ahmed Hussain. In the palace, there is a long tunnel that leads to a temple.

The background story about its construction

Mohatta palace was built for a reason. The main reason for building this palace was Mohatta’s wife who was suffering from a serious illness. Mohatta was advised by the doctors that only the winds of the sea could cure her illness. The winds of the sea are very refreshing, and so Mohatta set out to build this magnificent and fascinating palace in Karachi’s seaside area near Clifton. Therefore, this shows that the story behind the construction of the palace is a tale of love. Mohatta was a man who didn’t want his wife to die and so he would do anything like building a palace like that. It is actually a love tale like that of Taj Mahal’s, but the difference is that Shah Jehan built Taj Mahal after the death of his wife, while Mohatta built the magnificent palace so that he could save his wife from dying.

The fascinating structure

Mohatta Palace is two stories and occupies an area of 18,000 square feet, a size that no other structure has ever covered before and ever since it was constructed. At the entry of the palace, you can see beautifully coloured windows on the outside, a stone wall, an arch and minarets which collectively give you a mesmerizing view of the stunning architectural splendour.

All rooms on the first floor are luxurious and feature a royal touch which simply offers that royal feeling or experience being in any of them. If you could climb to the rooftop of the palace, you could catch a view of the sea. However, there are so many residential buildings that have been built and seem to surround the palace such that you could not get a clear view of the sea or even feel the refreshing winds from the sea as it was before.

Why you should visit?

The palace offers a range of activities that are good for all types of visitors. Being a historical place in Pakistan, you can visit the palace for educational purposes. If you love travelling and exploring, the palace offers a stunning place for you.

 

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About Mohatta Palace

Mohatta Palace – famous tourist attraction in Pakistan for many reasons. It combines rich history, beautiful nature, great service, amazing culture. You can spend time there alone, with your colleagues, family, kids or on a group visit with your company. You can visit this tourist place in Pakistan during any period – summer or winter, spring or autumn – it’s really wonderful anytime. Visiting this attraction will help you to relax a bit, take a fresh breath and return to work routine with another attitude.

The Mohatta Palace is located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It was built in the posh seaside locale of Clifton by Shivratan Chandraratan Mohatta, a Hindu Marwari businessman from modern day Rajasthan in India,in 1927, as his summer home.[1] The architect of the palace was Agha Ahmed Hussain.[2] However, Mohatta could enjoy this building for only about two decades before independence, after which he left Karachi for India. He built the Palace in the tradition of stone palaces in Rajasthan, using pink Jodhpur stone in combination with the local yellow stone from Gizri. The amalgam gave the palace a distinctive presence in an elegant neighbourhood, characterised by Indo-Saracenic architecture which was located not far from the sea.

The Mohattas, belonged to the Maheshwari community,[3] originated with Motilal Mohata (spelled Mohatta in English) who migrated in 1842 from Bikaner to Hyderabad (Deccan) and became a clerk in a shop.[4] His four children migrated to Calcutta and became leading merchants of imported cloth. One of them, Govardhan Mohta, settled in Karachi in 1883. His older son, Ramgopal, became a scholar and author[5] (the Hindu Gymkhana, Karachi building was named after him[6]), and the younger son Shivrattan became an industrialist in Karachi (steel Mill, Sugar Mill etc.) with branches in north India.

The palace has an area of 18,500 sq ft (1,720 m2) and its facade is trimmed with windows, stone brackets, spandrels, domes, balustrades with floral motifs and exquisite railings. There are nine domes, with a centre dome in the middle; while the windows in the front portion opening out into the garden are of blue colour and those in the rear area are arched windows with stained glass. The palace has large stately rooms designed for entertainment on the ground floor and more private facilities on the first floor, where there is a terrace provided with a shade from intense sunlight. The palace is solely made up of teak wood with a polished staircase, long corridors and doors opening within doors. The “barsati” (terrace) of the Mohatta Palace had a beautiful family temple dedicated to the Hindu God, lord Shiva.

Mohatta Palace was a luxurious home built in the late 1920s, consisting of 18,500 sq.yards. The elegant palace is built on different levels and was a summer house for the Mohatta family for two decades before they left for India in 1947. There are three levels, basement, ground floor, first floor till you reach the roof. The basement that lies on the north side of the building is quite small and comprises a staircase going downwards towards a hot water pool chamber which has a connected changing room. They say it had a hot and cold water system attached, which would supply the water to the pool. Near the pool chamber are small ventilators, two on each side which may have been used as a source of sunlight and letting out steam.

Upon stepping inside the building is a corridor which connects to each room situated on the ground floor. The ground floor contains large stately rooms designed for entertainment, two towards the right side of the entrance (north), two towards the left (south) and one at the back. The movement inside the building is through the great entrance into a spacious corridor that runs around a huge hall with ornate ceilings and a staircase on the South side.

There is a large square hall with seven openings leading into a corridor. The hall acts as a datum and around it the corridors are connected to the rooms where different activities are held. On the south between the two rooms is a solid teak wood, polished staircase connecting ground floor and first floor.

On each corner of the palace are octagonal towers, in which only two near the front entrance have spiral staircases which go up to the roof. At the far end, opposite the entrance is a room for entertainment which has few stairs on each side leading directly into the grounds at the back of the palace.

When viewed from outside, the ground floor has two very ornate windows on either side of the entrance consisting of three shutters in each. The same windows are on the north and south side as well, on either side of the stairs which lead from the rooms to the grounds. The octagonal towers have five windows each. In the same way there is a protruding ‘chhajja’ which goes all around the ground floor to provide shade.

The first floor has private facilities unlike the ground floor. Although this floor also has a large hall in the centre having ten doors which open into the corridor that frames it on two sides (north and south) and private rooms on the other sides (east and west). There are four large bedrooms with attached restrooms and dressing rooms. Each bedroom has two openings, more like ‘doors opening into doors’. The staircase on the south ends on this floor, leaving a passageway to the left which connects to the octagonal tower staircase that leads up to the roof. There is a similar staircase on the opposite end which leads up to the roof. Whereas the remaining two towers remain disconnected, just giving an outdoor view from the windows to each floor.

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Mohatta Palace – exhibits and events

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Mohatta Palace can be great to visit both in groups and alone – as you prefer. Some people like visiting attractions with tourist groups or excursions – seems to be more fun, others – when it’s almost totally empty – and they can enjoy place on their own. This spot is beautiful in any way.

Mohatta Palace – location

Mohatta Palace is located in Pakistan. On museuly you can find out how to get to Mohatta Palace or which transport to choose.
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Prices

Adults Rs. 30 only
Free admission for senior citizen, school students and children under 12 years

Tuesday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Wednesday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Thursday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Friday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Saturday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

Sunday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

The Mohatta Palace Museum offers a diverse range of activities
for both the casual and informed visitor. Families and school children are particularly welcome and tours can be arranged in advance.

Pakistan
www.mohattapalacemuseum.com
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How to get there?

The following public transport is available to the Museum:
Bus: No 20, Minibus: N and W30
Coaches: Super Hasan Zai and Khan Coach.
Ten minutes walk from both Abdullah Shah Ghazi and the Do Talwar monument.

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