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The Pakistan-Italian Resource Centre is a facility that will be tasked to promote the cultural, economic and social development of the city of Multan. It supports the exchange of knowledge and increasing the productive sectors through relations, trade and finance between Pakistan and other countries, Italy in particular. It will also become the ideal forum for activities aimed at enhancing the urban fabric of Multan and at the same time constitute a sort of commercial/business hub to promote the economy of the Walled City and its surrounding productive land. The Resource Centre can become the portal of the city of Multan and its territory in the next Expo, event that will take place in Milan in 2015. The project area is located within the Pilot Area, near the Darbar of Musa Pak Shaheed, between Sarafa Bazaar and Musa Pak Complex, in a strategic place to the enhancement of the inner city. The symbolic, historic and cultural importance of Musa Pak Complex makes it one of the most significant and representative areas of the historical core of Multan. This chapter illustrates the design project of the Resource Centre building at Abdali Road, in a outside of the Walled City area. The project includes the design of the new Resource Centre building (a nearly zero-energy building), the connected restoration of the historical Dar Bar building (Musafir Khana) and the redevelopment of the courtyard.
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We know that the body of Hazrat Musa Pak Shaheed was initially buried in Uch Sharif. He was transported to Multan and buried in the current tomb in 1025/1616, a few years after his death, according to M. Aulad Ali Gilani in the year 1001/1592 or in 1010/1601 (Gilani 1963, p. 246). It was then that the established habit was to build mosques near shrines. In fact, the Mosque of Musa Pak Shaheed (also called Masjid Ghausia) is located adjacent to the tomb, to the north. Some sources believe that previously there was already another mosque, built at Khanqah Gilani. An engraving on stone in Persian, partly preserved and belonging to the temple complex, mentions the following: Ta’amir Shaikh Hamid bin Shaikh Jeelani Shanzdeh 1005/1596. Some believe that this inscription belonged to the ancient mosque. Others argue for the hypothesis that this inscription is connected with the construction of the new mosque and shrine (Masjid Ghausia) and this leads to suppose that the period of construction of the shrine and of the complex of Musa Pak is prior to the date of burial of the holy man in Multan. Regardless of the two hypotheses, however, it is confirmed by numerous texts (Haq 1972, p. 175) that the mausoleum and the construction of the new mosque are roughly contemporaries and they were placed in front of the Darbar, beyond the open space laid to the south of the Khana Gillani.
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Bersani, E., Invernizzi, E., Locatelli, M. (2014). Pakistan-Italian Resource Centre and the Enhancement of Multan Walled City. In: Del Bo, A., Bignami, D. (eds) Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Revitalization in Multan City. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02117-1_20
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