Domes
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Mohatta Palace, also known as Qasr-e-Fatima, is a museum in the affluent seaside district of Clifton in Karachi, about 6 km south of the city centre in a straight line. Designed by Ahmed Hussain Agha, the palace was built in 1927 as the summer home of the businessman Shivratan Mohatta, in the tradition of Rajasthan's stone palaces, using pink Jodhpur stone with local yellow stone from Gizri. The palace covers 1,720 square metres, and its facade is trimmed with windows, stone brackets, spandrels and domes. Today it houses a museum with art and history exhibitions. The palace's ornate pink-and-yellow facade rises with round domes and small towers around a larger central dome, in front of a neat green garden with flower beds and paths. Its fine stone carving looks almost like carved wood. Visitors see the exhibitions in the palace halls, admire the facade and domes from the garden and stroll the paths. The visit pairs well with nearby Clifton Beach.
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Stone carving.
Flowers and paths.
Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan
A museum and exhibitions.
Clifton Beach.