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Max: Min: Rain: 48.0mm 23.70000076 15.69999980 Chowk Bazaar, Hazarduari, 2939453°C 9265137°C 2 Murshidabad, 742149, India What To The Hazarduari (Thousand Doors) also doubles up as the museum. SEE Designed by British sapper, the palace was 5 Sights constructed in Italian marble between 1829 http://www.ixigo.com/places-to-visit-see-in-murshidabad-lp- and 1837. It has perhaps 900 ‘real’ doors 1028004 (including French windows) as well as a 1 Imambara plethora of false doors. Nazeem Humayun Jha is reputed to have spent an unbelievable (for that time) Rs 18 lakh on his On Baharampur-Lalgola State residence. Spread over three floors, the Highway,Murshidabad palace has some 120 rooms. The walls are built many public lined with old oil portraits. Artefacts include buildings, most within a few kilometres of the silver throne of the , chandeliers each other in the Lalbagh area. His greatest and antique furniture. achievement was the magnificent Katra Masjid, built on the lines of the 4 Gardens Kaabah. This -cummadarsa is set in Near , Lalbagh, fairly well-maintained grounds. It had cells The Murshidabad 742149, West Bengal, for some 700-odd Quranic scholars as well Kathgola Gardens of Jagat Seth (a leading India as a large prayer hall. The entire structure banker and financier to the nawabs) are a Rebuilt and renovated in 1847 after it caught leans because of the damage sustained in vast complex of orchards, pleasure gardens, fire in 1842 and 1846, the Nizamat an earthquake in 1897. The ruler is interred pavilions, marble statues, walks and Imambara is the largest Imambara across in the basement; he hoped that his soul gazebos, ornamental bathing tanks, and India. This masterpiece was built by Nawab would gain salvation from the dust scattered even a Jain temple. Nazim Mansoor Ali Khan Feradun Jah. The here by the feet of the faithful. Imambara is owned by both the 5 Moti Jheel Government of West Bengal and 3 Hazarduari Palace and Archaeological Survey of India, and reflects a Museum rich Islamic Architectural style. The present building’s architecture has been beautifully done by Sadeq Ali Khan and costs more than 6 lakhs.