Hyderabad city comprises of many places bearing religious importance which became the contributing factor for the city to be considered as the right destination for touring individuals and localities to know more about holy places. As one can find the blend of different cultures that include Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and many more. The source for people living in the city to express their religious belief towards almighty god is through place of worship i.e. mosques, temples, and churches. The stunning feature that adds more attraction to holy places in Hyderabad is its splendid architecture and guides each individual to explore the importance of heritage and culture prevailing in the city from the decades.
Holy places of Hyderabad include Birla Mandir, Ashta Lakshmi Temple, Chilkur Balaji Temple, Sanghi Temple, Peddamma Gudi, Iskcon Temple, Sri Ujjani Temple, Katta Maisamma Temple, Jama Masjid, Mecca Masjid, Toli Masjid, Chote Hazrat Ki Dargah, St.Joseph‘s Cathedral and many more has contributed to attract more pilgrims not only from India but also from different parts of globe and became a source to generate revenue for tourism department of Andhra Pradesh.
Birla Mandir: The trip to Hyderabad city does not end for any individual without a visit to famous and beautiful temple named “Birla Mandir”. Birla mandir temple is totally built with white marbles brought from rajasthan and is devoted to lord venkateshwara. As birla temple is built on hilltop, it provides the spectacular view of surroundings especially at nights comprising the Public Garden,Hussain Sagar Lake, Lumbini Park, Legislative Assembly, Secretariat building and Reserve Bank of India.
Ashtalakshmi Temple: The well known Hindu temple dedicated to Goddesses Ashtalakshmi in Hyderabad is Ashtalakshmi Temple. The group of eight Hindu Goddesses, who represent wealth as well as powers of Shri Lakshmi forms as Ashtalashmi.
Chilkur Balaji Temple: Chilkur Balaji Temple is one of the oldest temples of Telangana region and is located in chilkur village, which is on the banks of Osman sagar lake, just 25 km from Hyderabad. So, if you are looking out for a shrine that has historical significance, do visit Chilkur Balaji Temple to feel the divine experience.
Sanghi Temple: One among the best holy shrine for Hindus in outskirts of Hyderabad city is Sanghi Temple. The Sanghi Temple is the host for all the idols of important Hindu Gods and was constructed in the south Indian style of architecture.
Peddamma guddi: The temple that helps to promote and flourish the richness of Hindi culture and religion is the Peddammaguddi Temple of Hyderabad and it located in the heart of city that is at jubilee hills. Therefore, common man and religious people who want to know more about the characteristics of Ma Durga and receive blessings of goddess, need to visit PeddammaGuddi Temple of Hyderabad.
ISKCON Temple: his temple is dedicated to Lord Krishna and can find thousands of Hindu devotees visiting this shrine during Krishna Janmashtami celebrations every year. So, to discover the real meaning and proper perspective of life or to feel the holy presence of Lord Krishna, do visit ISKCON Temple of Hyderabad to experience the change.
Ujjaini Mahankali Temple: One of the oldest and famous shrines of Hindus within the twin cities is Ujjaini Mahankali Temple. Ujjaini Mahankali Temple receives large turnover of devotees from different states and Telagana region at the time of main events or rituals like Kolupu Potharaju Bali, Rangam, Bonalu Ghatotsavam and Saganamputa.
Katta Maisamma Temple: There are many significant temples in Telagana region and can find most of them in Hyderabad city, one among these is the Katta Maisamma Temple. Therefore, the tourists who are planning to visit Hyderabad city including the local people of the region should visit Katta Maisamma Temple to receive the blessings of Mother Goddess Maisamma who is symbol of strength.
Jama Masjid: Hyderabad is the city with the blend of religious people and is one among the best religious place in India. Jama Masjid is centre of attraction surrounded by many tourist spots like Golconda, Charminar and Mecca Masjid, which makes it more special from other tourist places in Hyderabad city.
Mecca Masjid: Apart from Jama Masjid, the oldest and biggest mosque in India is Mecca Masjid and is 100 yards away from the famous Charminar of Hyderabad city. Mecca Masjid is the best tourist spot as it situated close to landmarks of Laad Bazaar, Chowmahalla Palace and Charminar. To know more about heritage buildings in India, you need to visit Mecca Masjid as it is listed as heritage building of Hyderabad.
Toli Masjid: Apart from Mecca Masjid and Jama Masjid, the other famous and attractive mosque of Hyderabad built in Indo Islamic and Qutubshahi style of architecture is Toli Masjid. So, to find the ornate mosque built in Indo Islamic and Qutubshahi style of architecture in Hyderabad city, right place to land at is Toli Majid of Hyderabad to feel the unique experience of a holy shrine.
Chote Hazrat Ki Dargah Masjid: One among famous religious place of Muslims in Hyderabad is Chote Hazrat Ki Dargah Masjid which located inside the Devan Devadi in Hyderabad. Chote Hazrat Ki Dargah Masjid became sanctified pilgrimage center not only for Muslims within the twin cities but also for Muslims coming for other parts of the country. Your search for prominent Dargah in Hyderabad city ends at Chote Hazrat Ki Dargah Masjid.
St Joseph's Cathedral: St Joseph's Cathedral of Hyderabad is considered as best among the famous churches of Roman Catholics in India. St Joseph's Cathedral of Hyderabad was built in style of Italian architecture and best part of the cathedral is the architectural work on the building which makes it totally unique from other churches in India.
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Charminar
Photograph of a main street in Hyderabad, looking towards the Char Minar, taken by Deen Dayal in the 1880s. This is from the Curzon Collection: 'Views of HH the Nizam's Dominions, Hyderabad, Deccan, 1892'. Hyderabad was founded beside the River Musi in 1591 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah (r.1580-1612) as an alternative to his capital at Golconda. The town was laid out in a grid pattern with two main roads running east to west and north to south; the Char Minar sits at the intersection of these two roads. The Char Minar, or Four Towers, was built in 1591 to mark the centre of the city. This ceremonial structure comprises four imposing arched portals with arcaded storeys and geometric screens above. The four corner minarets are crowned with domical finials. They contain spiral staircases opening onto triple tiers of balconies.
The Char Minar gate
The Char Minar gate, Hyderabad, in the 1880's; an albumen photo, possibly by Lala Deen Dayal
The Char Minar, Hyderabad
"The Char Minar, Hyderabad," an engraving from Fullarton's Gazetteer, London, 1850.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
TRS chief promises quota for Muslims
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao has promised political reservation and a quota in education and employment based on population for Muslims in separate Telangana.
Addressing a public meeting organised by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind on the Nizam College grounds here with permission granted by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Mr. Rao felt Muslims would not be assured of social justice unless they got political reservation.
However, their experience in 53 years of unified State was bitter.
Mr. Rao assured that a special provision in Constitution would be invoked, as was done by Tamil Nadu government, to extend reservation to Muslims in education and employment.
They would get the reservations proportionate to their population which was 13 per cent to 15 per cent in Telangana.
The TRS chief also promised a budget for welfare of Muslims based on their population.
He appealed to the Muslims to shed self-defeatism and assert themselves in separate Telangana.
Earlier, Telugu Desam Party leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy faced an angry crowd demanding that party president N. Chandrababu Naidu spell out his stand on separate Telangana.
Mr. Reddy informed the crowd that it misunderstood Mr. Naidu and said it was with the latter’s permission that 39 MLAs of the party in Telangana joined the movement for Statehood.
The TDP leader also assured that his party would extend political reservations and reservations in education and employment to Muslims in separate Telangana.
Former Home Minister T. Devender Goud wondered if there was a government in the State as organisations wanting to hold meetings did so with court permission every time.
Veteran Congress leader G. Venkatswamy deplored that the contribution of local population for the development of Hyderabad was sought to be snatched by outsiders.
The meeting adopted several resolutions, one of which sought professional, people friendly and law abiding police force in Telangana State. Congress MP Madhu Yaskhi Goud, Telangana Joint Action Committee convener C. Kodandaram and former Minister Basheeruddin Babu Khan also spoke.
Addressing a public meeting organised by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind on the Nizam College grounds here with permission granted by the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Mr. Rao felt Muslims would not be assured of social justice unless they got political reservation.
However, their experience in 53 years of unified State was bitter.
Mr. Rao assured that a special provision in Constitution would be invoked, as was done by Tamil Nadu government, to extend reservation to Muslims in education and employment.
They would get the reservations proportionate to their population which was 13 per cent to 15 per cent in Telangana.
The TRS chief also promised a budget for welfare of Muslims based on their population.
He appealed to the Muslims to shed self-defeatism and assert themselves in separate Telangana.
Earlier, Telugu Desam Party leader Nagam Janardhan Reddy faced an angry crowd demanding that party president N. Chandrababu Naidu spell out his stand on separate Telangana.
Mr. Reddy informed the crowd that it misunderstood Mr. Naidu and said it was with the latter’s permission that 39 MLAs of the party in Telangana joined the movement for Statehood.
The TDP leader also assured that his party would extend political reservations and reservations in education and employment to Muslims in separate Telangana.
Former Home Minister T. Devender Goud wondered if there was a government in the State as organisations wanting to hold meetings did so with court permission every time.
Veteran Congress leader G. Venkatswamy deplored that the contribution of local population for the development of Hyderabad was sought to be snatched by outsiders.
The meeting adopted several resolutions, one of which sought professional, people friendly and law abiding police force in Telangana State. Congress MP Madhu Yaskhi Goud, Telangana Joint Action Committee convener C. Kodandaram and former Minister Basheeruddin Babu Khan also spoke.
Monday, February 4, 2008
LPG cyclinders
LPG cylinders being delivered in an autorickshaw. Cylinders from different companies have different colors. Some are red, some are blue, and these are red-blue-yellow. Most households use LPG cylinders for cooking. In Mumbai they deliver gas through pipes. There always seems to be a shortage of gas cylinders and sometimes it can take many days before a replacement arrives, so many families have two cylinders. To get a cylinder you have to be registered with an LPG cylinder dealer. To register you need to produce a ration card which acts as a proof of residence (even if you are not buying anything on the ration card. Things such as rice and kerosene are available at cheaper rates on ration card.) I am not quite sure how people who come to the city on a short duration of a few months manage because they would first have to obtain a ration card. Now-a-days many autorickshaws run on LPG. I have heard that the people who deliver the LPG cylinders make money by selling the cylinders to the autorickshaw drivers for some extra money, and they tell the dealer (for whom they are delivering) that the customer's door was locked. I have also heard that people who run out of gas for cooking, bribe the LPG delivery guys and get a cylinder from them. I am not quite sure how the delivery guys exchange the empty cylinder they bring back to the dealer. There are LPG filling stations for the autorickshaws but they are not enough to fulfill the demand. Just like petrol prices, the prices of LPG cylinders is a sensitive issue in politics and usually prices don't go up till the elections.
The autorickshaw delivering the cylinders is made by Piaggio. The Italian company, which makes the world-famous Vespa scooters, will once again be introducing Vespa scooters in India.
For the language buffs - it says "Bharatgas" on the cylinders. The word "Bharat" is the official name of India in Hindi, Sanskrit and Marathi languages. The name in other Indian languages is a close variation of this word.
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispehric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." -George W. Bush
LPG cyclinders
LPG cylinders being delivered in an autorickshaw. Cylinders from different companies have different colors. Some are red, some are blue, and these are red-blue-yellow. Most households use LPG cylinders for cooking. In Mumbai they deliver gas through pipes. There always seems to be a shortage of gas cylinders and sometimes it can take many days before a replacement arrives, so many families have two cylinders. To get a cylinder you have to be registered with an LPG cylinder dealer. To register you need to produce a ration card which acts as a proof of residence (even if you are not buying anything on the ration card. Things such as rice and kerosene are available at cheaper rates on ration card.) I am not quite sure how people who come to the city on a short duration of a few months manage because they would first have to obtain a ration card. Now-a-days many autorickshaws run on LPG. I have heard that the people who deliver the LPG cylinders make money by selling the cylinders to the autorickshaw drivers for some extra money, and they tell the dealer (for whom they are delivering) that the customer's door was locked. I have also heard that people who run out of gas for cooking, bribe the LPG delivery guys and get a cylinder from them. I am not quite sure how the delivery guys exchange the empty cylinder they bring back to the dealer. There are LPG filling stations for the autorickshaws but they are not enough to fulfill the demand. Just like petrol prices, the prices of LPG cylinders is a sensitive issue in politics and usually prices don't go up till the elections.
The autorickshaw delivering the cylinders is made by Piaggio. The Italian company, which makes the world-famous Vespa scooters, will once again be introducing Vespa scooters in India.
For the language buffs - it says "Bharatgas" on the cylinders. The word "Bharat" is the official name of India in Hindi, Sanskrit and Marathi languages. The name in other Indian languages is a close variation of this word.
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispehric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." -George W. Bush
LPG cyclinders
LPG cylinders being delivered in an autorickshaw. Cylinders from different companies have different colors. Some are red, some are blue, and these are red-blue-yellow. Most households use LPG cylinders for cooking. In Mumbai they deliver gas through pipes. There always seems to be a shortage of gas cylinders and sometimes it can take many days before a replacement arrives, so many families have two cylinders. To get a cylinder you have to be registered with an LPG cylinder dealer. To register you need to produce a ration card which acts as a proof of residence (even if you are not buying anything on the ration card. Things such as rice and kerosene are available at cheaper rates on ration card.) I am not quite sure how people who come to the city on a short duration of a few months manage because they would first have to obtain a ration card. Now-a-days many autorickshaws run on LPG. I have heard that the people who deliver the LPG cylinders make money by selling the cylinders to the autorickshaw drivers for some extra money, and they tell the dealer (for whom they are delivering) that the customer's door was locked. I have also heard that people who run out of gas for cooking, bribe the LPG delivery guys and get a cylinder from them. I am not quite sure how the delivery guys exchange the empty cylinder they bring back to the dealer. There are LPG filling stations for the autorickshaws but they are not enough to fulfill the demand. Just like petrol prices, the prices of LPG cylinders is a sensitive issue in politics and usually prices don't go up till the elections.
The autorickshaw delivering the cylinders is made by Piaggio. The Italian company, which makes the world-famous Vespa scooters, will once again be introducing Vespa scooters in India.
For the language buffs - it says "Bharatgas" on the cylinders. The word "Bharat" is the official name of India in Hindi, Sanskrit and Marathi languages. The name in other Indian languages is a close variation of this word.
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispehric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." -George W. Bush
Thursday, January 31, 2008
A Head Above The Rest
I saw these characters attracting attention at the opening of this bakery. I don't recognize the characters. This is the first time I have seen these for the opening of a new shop. The man on the chair is preparing for the opening by hanging garlands of fresh flowers. Now-a-days I have seen the sidewalks have various patterns formed by cement blocks of two or more colors. Traditionally sidewalks (footpaths) are lined with stone slabs, but in some places, especially in front of shops, they use these two-tone interlocking cement blocks, which are easy to remove and replace during repair work.
Many of these bakeries don't bake their breads and biscuits, but rather are supplied by people who make it somewhere else. Sometimes you see these baked goods being carried on a bicycle to such bakeries. The goods are not even covered and are open to dust and flies. But once inside a nice-looking display case, it is difficult to imagine how it got there. Some of these bakeries bake their own pizza though.
"Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy." -Mark Twain
A Head Above The Rest
I saw these characters attracting attention at the opening of this bakery. I don't recognize the characters. This is the first time I have seen these for the opening of a new shop. The man on the chair is preparing for the opening by hanging garlands of fresh flowers. Now-a-days I have seen the sidewalks have various patterns formed by cement blocks of two or more colors. Traditionally sidewalks (footpaths) are lined with stone slabs, but in some places, especially in front of shops, they use these two-tone interlocking cement blocks, which are easy to remove and replace during repair work.
Many of these bakeries don't bake their breads and biscuits, but rather are supplied by people who make it somewhere else. Sometimes you see these baked goods being carried on a bicycle to such bakeries. The goods are not even covered and are open to dust and flies. But once inside a nice-looking display case, it is difficult to imagine how it got there. Some of these bakeries bake their own pizza though.
"Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy." -Mark Twain
A Head Above The Rest
I saw these characters attracting attention at the opening of this bakery. I don't recognize the characters. This is the first time I have seen these for the opening of a new shop. The man on the chair is preparing for the opening by hanging garlands of fresh flowers. Now-a-days I have seen the sidewalks have various patterns formed by cement blocks of two or more colors. Traditionally sidewalks (footpaths) are lined with stone slabs, but in some places, especially in front of shops, they use these two-tone interlocking cement blocks, which are easy to remove and replace during repair work.
Many of these bakeries don't bake their breads and biscuits, but rather are supplied by people who make it somewhere else. Sometimes you see these baked goods being carried on a bicycle to such bakeries. The goods are not even covered and are open to dust and flies. But once inside a nice-looking display case, it is difficult to imagine how it got there. Some of these bakeries bake their own pizza though.
"Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy." -Mark Twain
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