Travel to MARDAN | TAKHT I BAI | JAMAL GARHI | 2200 years old | With English Subtitle

MARDAN | TAKHT I BAI | JAMAL GARHI | With English Subtitle

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We will show you a lot about Buddhists ruins in Mardan.
Also show you the only church in Mardan which has graves in yard situated in Mardan.

Mardan is the second-largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is a fast growing city that experienced a population boom in the latter half of the twentieth century. Mardan is part of a growing industrial center and is home to textile and edible oil mills, as well as one of the largest sugar mills in South Asia.

Takht-i-Bahi is an Indo-Parthian archaeological site of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The site is considered among the most important relics of Buddhism in all of what was once Gandhara and has been "exceptionally well-preserved.
The monastery was founded in the 1st century CE and was in use until the 7th century. The complex is regarded by archaeologists as being particularly representative of the architecture of Buddhist monastic centers from its era. Takht-i-Bahi was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.

Jamal Garhi is a small town located 13 kilometers from Mardan at Katlang Mardan road in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan. Jamal Garhi was a Buddhist monastery from the first until the fifth century AD at a time when Buddhism flourished in this part of the Indian subcontinent. There is a beautiful monastery and main stupa, surrounded by chapels closely packed together. The site is called ‘The Jamal Garhi Kandarat by the locals.