Objects of Interest

Oct 03, 2007 23:41:58

Most architectural monuments are at or in the proximity of the south bank of the Gomti, one of sea-grass over-rampantly grew river, which swells with monsoon and then is overcrowded by Fischerkanus. In the west, the sad remnants are to the city, the close “old” Lakhnau limiting “hard Inge Bridge” several of buildings established by the Nawabs of Awadh, under it several Imambara (“houses of the Imame”), buildings of graves for Imame. The large one or “Bara Imambara” is most worth seeing from that 18. Century, which one the largest Gewölbehallen of the world exhibits - 15 meters long and 50 meters highly. The main street west the main entrance gates spans the kolossale “Rumi Darwasa” understood in the purge, a Triumphbogen after the model of the high gate in Istanbul. Stages lead to open areas with view on the architectural monuments of Hussainabad. A bit west continues to be the “Hussainabad Imambra”, also Imambra or palace of the lights called Chota (“small”), because if it is decorated and illuminiert for specific occasions, it resembles a fairy tale lock. The Imambra was built for 1837 by Muhammad Ali Shah (1837-1842). In the midst of a park plant southeast the ruins of the British residence are appropriate for the hard Inge Bridge. It was exactly the same left, as it looked, after finally the months-long FE storage found an end on 17 November 1857 by the intervention of Sir Colin Campbell (1792-1863). You of a cannon ball zerschmetterter tower became the landmark of the staying power of the British in India. At the river, in the Rana Pratap Marg, thront the enormous dome of the “Shah Najaf Imambra”, after the Mausoleum Alis in the Iraq designated and most worth seeing in the light gloss during the Shiite Muharam celebration. In the interiors among other things the silvered burial place is to be seen as dekadent and viceful valid Ghazi ud DIN Haidar (1814-1827), which was buried together with three of its wives. The Imambra served the insurgent one during the September Oy rebellion as fortress. On 16 November 1857 “Sikandrabag” the crucial battle took place in the adjacent desire garden, which made it for the Britisher possible to release the residence. The soldiers of Sir Colin Campbell needed one and a half hours, in order to free-supply itself the way to the 2,000 Sepoys; then the Sikhs broke and 93. Highlander regiment through. The Indian soldiers were pityless slaughtered. Source: Wikipedia (translated version)