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SHANGHAI MANSION 1920

The Shanghai Mansion is a hisorical building in the pakistani city of Lahore .it is in the centre of lahore. It's consstruction started in 1918 and it was completed in 1920 during British Raj by The Sikhs to house Themselves, for almost 27 years Ram Das Singh The Constructor of it and his family lived in this building. this building comprises of 3 floors and almost 400 yards, which include three coutyard one on each floor , and this is constructed by red powerful bricks.

Construction of the mausoleum was completed in 1920, but work continued on other phases of the project for another 10 years due to lack of Money and permits. The mansion is believed to have been completed in its entirety in 1929 at a cost estimated at the time to be around 1 million rupees, which in 2015 would be approximately 155 million rupees (U.S. $1 mmillion dollars )

IN Independance ( 1947 ) sikhs left this mausoleum and then Muhammad ali took over it and the till now its natural heir is living in it and now its also known as shanghai printers and in between this it was used as a hotel by ali and visitors used to live here.