Gor Khatri

Gor Khatri is an archaeological site located in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is popularly known as Gor Khatri meaning “Warrior Hero’s Tomb” due to the burial of his hero and Kanishka. A few decades ago, during the excavation, the fact was revealed that the fort located on the highest hill of Peshawar valley was built by the Greeks, White Huns and Sassanid invaders in the third century AD under the name of Bel Gor Khatri.

Later it came under Kushan, Sethi and Parthian, Kadarah Hindu Shahi, Hindu Shahi, Ghaznavid, Suri, Mughal, Durrani, Sikh and British rule. Jahan Araya Begum, the daughter of Mughal Emperor Shahjahan, built an inn for travelers to stay here in the shape of the present building, and besides a mosque, two wells of cold and fresh water were also built and named Jahanabad inn. Later, the Sikh governor Abu Belah made it his governor’s house and the decisions of various cases were also held here. Jails were also built adjacent to the Sadar gates for the prisoners.