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17/11, Hussainabad Road Lajpat Nagar Colony Machchhi Bhavan Uttar Pradesh 226 003
Overview
Rumi Darwaza in the heart of Lucknow looms over the busy everyday traffic of Lajpatnagar like an old guardian angel that has seen the city rise and fall. The ancient Awadhi architecture of Rumi Darwaza is one of those features of the old city of Lucknow which still clings on to the nostalgias of the past, like the horse driven Tonga cart. The creation of Rumi Darwaza has a very charitable reason behind it. When famine struck North India during 1748, the then Nawab of Lucknow came up with a plan that will feed his countrymen as well as give him something to cherish and be proud of.
As per the plan, the Awadhi workers built the great Rumi Darwaza for him, in exchange for every day
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