Place · Awadh capital · India
Lucknow
Also known as Lucknow, Lakhnau, Lakhnaw, Lakshmanavati
The Awadh capital, moved from Faizabad by Asaf-ud-Daula in 1775, and the court city of the Nawabs until Wajid Ali Shah's deposition in 1856. The Bara Imambara, Chota Imambara, Rumi Darwaza and Chattar Manzil are from the Nawabi half-century. The city was the second major theatre of the 1857 revolt, with the Residency's five-month siege and the British relief making it the war's most-reported site. Farangi Mahal, the city's eighteenth-century Islamic seminary, and the Nadwatul Ulama remain the two most consequential Sunni learning institutions founded here. The Lucknow Kathak gharana and the dhrupad lineage of Bettiah carry the court's musical culture into the present.
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Tradition
- Standard reference and civic histories; INTACH and ASI records; municipal and state gazetteers.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 26.847, 80.946
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- Site withinFarangi Mahal, Lucknow
Farangi Mahal, Lucknow sits inside Lucknow and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
- Site withinThe Residency, Lucknow
The Residency, Lucknow sits inside Lucknow and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
- Site withinKākorī
Kākorī lies within Lucknow — the two sites sit about 18 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Kākorī is one of the specific sites that give Lucknow its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
- Site withinLucknow Kathak gharana
Lucknow Kathak gharana lies within Lucknow — the two sites sit about 1 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Lucknow Kathak gharana is one of the specific sites that give Lucknow its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
- Site withinDarul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama
Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama lies within Lucknow — the two sites sit about 4 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama is one of the specific sites that give Lucknow its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
- Site withinNawal Kishore Press
Nawal Kishore Press lies within Lucknow — the two sites sit about 1 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Nawal Kishore Press is one of the specific sites that give Lucknow its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
- Site withinLucknow tabla gharana
Lucknow tabla gharana lies within Lucknow — the two sites sit about 0 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Lucknow tabla gharana is one of the specific sites that give Lucknow its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
- Migrated toMir Taqi Mir
Mir Taqi Mir moved from Delhi to Lucknow around 1782 under the patronage of Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula of Awadh, after the long disintegration of Delhi following Nadir Shah's 1739 sack and the Afghan invasions had made Mughal court patronage increasingly unreliable. He spent the last twenty-eight years of his life at Lucknow and died there in 1810; his migration is the exemplary case of the shift of Urdu literary gravity from Delhi to Lucknow in the late eighteenth century.
- Site withinBara Imambara, Lucknow
The Bara Imambara, built by Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula of Awadh in 1784 as a famine-relief public-works project, stands at the north edge of old Lucknow. Its 50-metre vaulted central hall is one of the largest unsupported arched chambers in the world; the attached Bhul-bhulaiya labyrinth is the city's best-known tourist attraction.
- Site withinRumi Darwaza, Lucknow
The Rūmi Darwāza, a 60-foot Mughal-era gateway modelled on the Sublime Porte of Constantinople, stands immediately west of the Bara Imāmbāra at Lucknow. Built in 1784 by Asaf-ud-Daula as the western entrance to the old city, it has become the city's enduring architectural emblem and appears on the state tourism logo.
- Site withinChota Imambara, Lucknow
The Chota Imāmbāra at Hussainabad, Lucknow, was built in 1838 by Muhammad Ali Shah of Awadh as both his own mausoleum and a public congregation hall for Muharram. The gilt-domed ceiling, the Belgian chandeliers (Awadh was the single largest market for them in the 19th century) and the silver throne together give it its unofficial nickname — 'Palace of Lights'.