Kankaria Lake

Kankaria Lake

Also known as Hauz-e-Qutb

Year

1451

Type

landscape

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Kankaria is not a natural lake but a masonry reservoir, dug out in the mid-15th century and finished in 1451 under Sultan Qutb-ud-Din Ahmad Shah II of the Gujarat Sultanate. Its most striking feature is geometric: the tank is a 34-sided reg …

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