East face of Entrance Portal.

25 November 1976
This complex consists of a mosque/madrass, a spacious courtyard and the mausoleum H Ansari (1727-1812). His ancestors moved from Saudia Arabia to Herat in the mid 7th century and later settled in the near-by village of Deh Yaha where he was born. He was brouth before Ahmad Shah Durrani for holding unorthodox ideas, but his brilliant defense so confounded the leading theologians that his death sentence was overruled. Many disciples flocked to his Madrassa.
The major buildings were built on order of his chief murid (disciple), Mir Ahmad Khan Mardanzai, the celebrated governor of Kashmir.

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25 November 1976<br />
This complex consists of a mosque/madrass, a spacious courtyard and the mausoleum H Ansari (1727-1812). His ancestors moved from Saudia Arabia to Herat in the mid 7th century and later settled in the near-by village of Deh Yaha where he was born. He was brouth before Ahmad Shah Durrani for holding unorthodox ideas, but his brilliant defense so confounded the leading theologians that his death sentence was overruled. Many disciples flocked to his Madrassa. <br />
The major buildings were built on order of his chief murid (disciple), Mir Ahmad Khan Mardanzai, the celebrated governor of Kashmir.