Abdulhusein M. Thariani

Abdulhusein Meheraly Thariani (3 April 1905, Bombay - 30 December 1972, Karachi) was a member of the first generation of formally trained architects in Pakistan. Amongst his most prominent works is the Baitul Mukarram (National Mosque of Bangladesh) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His works can be seen in three cities in three countries: Mumbai, India; Karachi, Pakistan and Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Thariani was born in 1905 in Bombay in British India (now Mumbai, India) as the only child of Fatimabai and Meheraly Thariani. He attended the J. J. School of Art's Architecture department. He was married to Gulshan; amongst his children are the Pakistani architects Saleem Thariani and Azad Thariani. His grandson Kumail is also an architect.

His career spanned almost four decades from 1929 to the late 1960s. In the 1950s, he along with 10 other practising architects including two foreigners; M. A. Ahed, Tajuddin Bhamani, Minoo Mistry, Pir Mohammad, R. S. Rustomji, H. H. Khan, Mehdi Ali Mirza, Zahiruddn Khawaja, Bloomfield and Peter Powell, formed the Institute of Architects, Pakistan.

He established his own practise, Abdulhusein M. Thariani in Bombay in 1929. Amongst his works in the city is the Ambassador Hotel.

After the creation of Pakistan as an independent state in 1947, he moved to Karachi and joined M/s Hyderi Construction Company as its Managing Director. Under his direction the first textile mill of Pakistan, Valika Textile Mills, in S.I.T.E. was constructed. In the early 1950s he left the company to restart his own practice under the name of Thariani & Co.

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