KHWAJA GHAR, Tapa-i Bibi Mahro

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Khwaja Ghar or Masjid Ghar (note 1) of LINDBERG (1958: 112) is small cave (note 2), which houses a venerated grave (dargah) and is used as a temple cave sacred to a Muslim (Sufi) saint cult (note 3). SITUATION: On the hillside of Tapa-i Bibi Mahro (note 4), which lies at a distance of 4 km (along the road towards north-east) -from the hotel- (note 5) and on the left-hand side of the road to the airport. CAVE DESCRIPTION: The semicircular chamber (about 3 or 4 m wide, 3 m long, and less than 2 m high) shelters, on entering on the left-hand side, a grave and descends by a small opening to a twilight-lit section (about four metres wide and long) which connects by a passage on the left to a dark chamber measuring about 5 m in width and 7 m in length. The cave is very dry, excavated (by nature or by man?) from mud, and seems to be of poor biospeleological interest.Khwaja Ghar or Masjid Ghar (note 1) of LINDBERG (1958: 112) is small cave (note 2), which houses a venerated grave (dargah) and is used as a temple cave sacred to a Muslim (Sufi) saint cult (note 3). SITUATION: On the hillside of Tapa-i Bibi Mahro (note 4), which lies at a distance of 4 km (along the road towards north-east) -from the hotel- (note 5) and on the left-hand side of the road to the airport. CAVE DESCRIPTION: The semicircular chamber (about 3 or 4 m wide, 3 m long, and less than 2 m high) shelters, on entering on the left-hand side, a grave and descends by a small opening to a twilight-lit section (about four metres wide and long) which connects by a passage on the left to a dark chamber measuring about 5 m in width and 7 m in length. The cave is very dry, excavated (by nature or by man?) from mud, and seems to be of poor biospeleological interest.