3D print the Badshahi Mosque
A free, printable model of the Badshahi Mosque and the courtyard walls, lawns and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Badshahi Mosque
The Badshahi Mosque, in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, is an imperial mosque from the Mughal era. Emperor Aurangzeb had it built between 1671 and 1673, facing the Lahore Fort on the northern edge of the historic Walled City. Carved red sandstone with marble inlay decorates the exterior, and it is an important example of Mughal architecture. It was the largest mosque of the Mughal era, and it held the title of the world's largest mosque for more than three centuries, until the late 20th century.
Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor, chose Lahore for the mosque, which commemorates his military campaigns in southern India, notably against the Maratha ruler Shivaji. Across the rectangular Hazuri Bagh, the mosque's entrance on the garden's west side looks toward the Lahore Fort's Alamgiri Gate, which Aurangzeb had built while the mosque went up. The emperor's foster brother Muzaffar Hussein, known by the title Fidai Khan Koka, supervised the work, which took only two years.
After the Sikh army took Lahore in 1799, the courtyard served as a stable for army horses. The British took control of the city in 1849, and in 1856 the building was returned to the Muslim community. Restoration work that began in 1939 finished in 1960 and cost 4.8 million rupees in all. Thirty-nine heads of Muslim states prayed there on a Friday during the 2nd Islamic Summit, on February 22, 1974.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 12 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 15 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 19 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slender minarets and finials
- Four slim minarets with small cupolas stand at the corners, and pointed finials top the domes. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep these tips crisp, and printing slowly helps the narrow minarets.
- Arches and roofline spikes
- Rows of pointed arches and tiny spikes run along the walls and roofline. Print friendly adapts them to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Badshahi Mosque is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Badshahi Mosque takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Badshahi Mosque is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Badshahi Mosque STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Badshahi Mosque grows with the print: about 12 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
