Abstract
A number of conservation projects including World Heritage sites are underway in Lahore Pakistan.
The most important concern for conservation of these monuments is to maintain authenticity in all
aspects. Although we conserve, preserve and restore monuments we often neglect the aspects of
authenticity from different angles. The paper will focus on three case studies built around 1640’s namely
Shalamar garden, Shish Mahal and Jahangir’s tomb. The first two sites are included in the World
Heritage List while the third one is a national monument and has a potential of being included in the
world heritage list. Each one of these monument has a special quality of design and decorative finishes
and its own peculiar conservation problems which need innovative solutions. The proposed paper will
briefly discuss the history of architecture of these monuments, their conservation problems, and
techniques adopted to revive them to the original glory. To what degree the government is successful in
undertaking authentic conservation and restoration is examined. The paper draws conclusions with
respect to successes and failures in these projects and sees to what degree the objectives of authenticity
have been achieved.
Abdul Rehman. (2011) Conservation of Historic Monuments in Lahore: Lessons from Successes and Failures, Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 1.
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