Mehmaan khana

A mehmaan khana (Hindustani مہمان خانہ, मेहमान ख़ाना, Bengali: মেহমান খানা) is a drawing room where guests are entertained in many houses in North India, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

[1] The term (also spelled memonkhona in Latin script) is also used to describe a guest room in other parts of Central Asia.

[2] In non-Pashtun Muslim households or North India and Pakistan, the term hujra (حجره, हुजरा or হুজরা) can also refer to a dedicated prayer room.

Other than a place to accommodate collective ceremonies, male members of the community who hang out and associate like a larger family regularly attend hujra(s).

To the east side of the Taj Mahal is a guest house or mehmankhana resembling the mosque Naqqar Khana, which gives symmetry to the facade.