| Bagh-e-Jinnah باغِ جناح | |
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| باغِ جناح | |
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 Interactive map of Bagh-e-Jinnah باغِ جناح | |
| Location | The Mall,Lahore,Punjab,Pakistan |
| Coordinates | 31°33′13″N74°19′53″E / 31.5537°N 74.3313°E /31.5537; 74.3313 |
| Area | 141 acres (0.57 km2)[1] |
| Established | 1860 |
| Etymology | The Garden of Jinnah is named after Quaid-e-AzamMuhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan. Earlier, it was named afterJohn Lawrence,Viceroy of India.[2] |
| Administered by | Parks and Horticulture Authority |
Bagh-e-Jinnah (Urdu:باغِ جناح,lit. 'Jinnah Garden'), formerly known asLawrence Gardens, is a historical park in the city ofLahore,Pakistan. The largegreen space contains abotanical garden,Masjid Dar-ul-Islam,[3][4] andQuaid-e-Azam Library.[5]
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There are alsoentertainment andsports facilities within the park: an open-air theater, arestaurant,tennis courts and theGymkhanaCricket Ground. It is located on Lawrence Road next toLahore Zoo, directly across from theGovernor's House onThe Mall.
The site was originally occupied by the Agri-Horticultural Society of the Punjab and had been planned as abotanical garden modelled onKew Gardens inLondon.[6] The garden was named afterJohn Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, who served as the firstChief Commissioner and thenLieutenant Governor of thePunjab, and who later becameViceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.[7]
By 1860, when the first part of Lawrence Gardens had been laid out, the site had become a wilderness, partly used as amenagerie and the rest as a pleasure ground forbadminton,archery and cricket. The first tree planted in the garden was in January 1862 and that same year Lawrence Hall was constructed for holding public meetings and theatrical entertainment.[6] In 1866 Montgomery Hall was also completed and in 1868 the site enlarged through the purchase of land to the south of the gardens. By 1876 the garden contained 80,000 trees and shrubs of 600 different species including trees from the plains of India,Austria, Syria, and southern Europe.[6]
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lawrence Garden began selling plants it had grown to the general public. Fruit trees were imported from across theBritish Empire, including grapes and mulberries fromKabul, peaches fromAgra, and plantain fromCalcutta.[6] In 1904 the Department of Agriculture became responsible for maintenance of the garden and since 1912 approximately seven acres have been managed byGovernment College University, Lahore.[6]
FollowingPartition and the creation ofPakistan, Lawrence Gardens was renamedBagh-e-Jinnah in honour ofMuhammad Ali Jinnah. A statue of Lawrence, standing outside the nearby Lahore High Court, was removed in August 1951 and later moved toFoyle and Londonderry College inNorthern Ireland.[8] Lawrence and Montgomery Halls were repurposed for theQuaid-e-Azam Library in 1984.[9]
The gardens are currently situated within 141 acres (0.57 km2). The site was originally larger, consisting of 176 acres (0.71 km2), however part of the land was given toLahore Zoo, and for local development.
It has almost 150 varieties of trees, 140 types of shrubs, 50 types of creepers, 30 palms, almost 100 succulent and about same indoor along with almost all varieties of annual flowers. The garden has a good name in Chrysanthemum shows, it was the first institute that started growing chrysanthemum and maximum no of varieties for it. It has 3 nurseries, 4 hillocks in it.
 Interactive map of Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore | |
| Location | Lahore, Punjab,Pakistan |
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| Owner | Pakistan Cricket Board |
| Surface | Grass |
Bagh-e-Jinnah park is a famouscricket ground since 1885, built for the entertainment of government officers and civil servants.[10]Lahore Gymkhana Club had regular fixtures here. The ground played host to friendly matches, competitive fixtures and host toPakistan's first unofficial Test against theWest Indies in 1948. A few more unofficialTests later, Bagh-e-Jinnah became aTest venue when Pakistan took onIndia in1954–55.New Zealand[11] and West Indies[12] also played a Test here before Bagh-e-Jinnah lost its Test status as it played second fiddle toGaddafi Stadium but still hosts tour matches involving visiting nations, especiallyEngland.[13]
Below are some pictures of Bagh-e-Jinnah:
 Quaid-e-Azam Library |  Quaid-e-Azam Library |  Quaid-e-Azam Library |  | |
_June_4_2004.jpg) Tennis courts | _June_4_2004.jpg) The mosque | _June_4_2004-4.jpg) Walking Trail | _June_4_2004-2.jpg) Walking Trail | |
_June_4_2004-3.jpg) Walking Trail |  Side view of Library |  Montgomery Hall 1890s taken by John Burke |
25 December 1984, the then President General Mohammad Ziaul Haq officially inaugurated the Quaid-e-Azam Library
