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Gulbarga Travel
Awe- inspiring. Strikingly bare. With a beauty all its own.
A Hindu city before the Muhammadan conquest, Gulbarga is unique synthesis of two
cultures. When Bhaman Shah ascended the throne of Daulatabad, it was this City
that he chose as his capital.
He filled it with beautiful palaces, mosques,
stately buildings and bazaars. The later rulers added to Bahman Shas's vision
and Gulgarga blossomed.
Start your tour in Gulgarga with
the Fort.
Built by Raja Gulchand and later strengthened by Al-ud-din Bahmani, the fort has
15 towers and 26 guns-one of them measuring 25 feet in length! Inside the fort
is the Jumma Masjid fashioned on the lines of the
great mosque of Cardova in
Spain. To the southern entrance of the fort is a group of royal tombs.
The most important monument in Gulgbarga is the
Khwaja Bande Nawaz Durgah.
The tomb of the great Sufi saint,
Khawaja Syed Mohammad Gesu Daraz. This
magnificent building in the Indo-Saracenic style, is the venue of an annual urus,
attended by nearly one hundered thousand people, both Muslims and Hindus.
The Durgah Library houses almost 10,000 books in Urdu, Persain and Arabic.
Also worth seeing are Sultan Hanan's tomb, the tomb of Ghias-ud-din, the fine
mausoleum of Feroze Shah and his family, the Haft-Gumbaz outside the city, the
elegant mosques, the well-kept lawns of Mahboob Gulshan and the Shrine of Shri
Sharanabasaveshwara, a famous pilgrim cente standing near the Gulbarga talab.
If time permits, take in sme of the important sot around Gulbarga Ganigapur,
Malkhed, Sonthi, Shorapur, the Chhaya Bhagavati and the Narayanpur Dam.
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