Places to visit in Uttar Pradesh
91 places to visit in Uttar Pradesh, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Dashashwamedh Ghat, Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Uttar Pradesh volume.
2 Wonders of the world · 3 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 19 National monuments · 3 State heritage sites · 35 Famous places to visit · 1 Offbeat place · 28 Hidden gems
Wonders of the world in Uttar Pradesh (2)
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Dashashwamedh Ghat
The principal ghat of the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth, where the evening aarti has been performed for centuries.
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Taj Mahal
A tomb built by an emperor for the wife he could not keep, in marble that changes colour with the hour.
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Uttar Pradesh (3)
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Agra Fort
The Mughal seat of power before Delhi, and the place where Shah Jahan was imprisoned by his son within sight of the Taj.
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Fatehpur Sikri
Akbar's capital of red sandstone, abandoned after fourteen years for want of water, perfect ever since.
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Jahangiri Mahal
The largest residence inside Agra Fort, built by Akbar for his son, Hindu in its brackets.
National monuments in Uttar Pradesh (19)
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Akbar's Tomb
Akbar designed it himself and his son finished it, in red sandstone with a false door on every side.
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Alamgir Mosque
Aurangzeb's mosque above Panchganga Ghat, built over a Vishnu temple and impossible to miss from the river.
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Allahabad Fort
Akbar's fort at the confluence, holding an Ashokan pillar, and mostly army.
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Atala Masjid
The first of the Sharqi mosques of Jaunpur, with a screen instead of a dome.
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Bara Imambara
A hall built in a famine year to give work to the starving, with a roof that stands on no beams and a labyrinth above it.
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Buland Darwaza
Fifty four metres of gate, for one victory.
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Chota Imambara
Built in 1838 as a mausoleum, hung with Belgian chandeliers, and lit for Muharram as it always was.
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Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh
A sixth century Gupta temple, one of the earliest stone temples in north India still standing.
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Dilkusha Kothi
An English baroque hunting lodge of 1800, wrecked in the 1857 siege and left as a shell in a garden.
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Itmad ud Daulah
The baby Taj, built by a Mughal empress for her father, and the first Indian building faced entirely in white marble.
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Jama Masjid, Jaunpur
The last and largest of the Sharqi mosques, on a raised plinth above the town.
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Jhansi Fort
The fort Rani Lakshmibai defended in 1858, and rode out of at night with her son tied to her back.
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Kalinjar Fort
Sher Shah Suri died taking it.
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Mehtab Bagh
The garden across the river laid out so the Taj sits exactly in its axis, best at dusk.
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Rumi Darwaza
A sixty foot gateway of the Awadh court, built when the nawabs could no longer afford stone and worked in brick and plaster instead.
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Sardhana Basilica
Begum Samru's church, and her tomb inside it.
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Sarnath
The deer park where the Buddha gave his first sermon, and where Ashoka raised a pillar whose capital is now the national emblem.
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Sikandar Bagh
A garden and villa where the 1857 siege ended in a massacre, now a botanical institute.
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Tomb of Mariam-uz-Zamani
The tomb Jahangir built for his mother at Sikandra, next to Akbar's own.
State heritage sites in Uttar Pradesh (3)
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Chattar Manzil
A Nawabi palace on the Gomti with an umbrella dome, built over a cellar cooled by the river.
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Chunar Fort
A fort above a bend in the Ganga that changed hands between Mughals, Afghans and the British without ever being taken by storm.
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Kans Quila
A fortified ruin at Mathura that people have called Kansa's castle since at least the eighteenth century.
Famous places to visit in Uttar Pradesh (35)
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Alopi Devi Temple
A temple at Alopibagh with no idol, where a wooden cradle hung under a red cloth is worshipped instead. Many hold it to be the Madhaveshwari Shakti Peetha of Prayag, though some give that name to the Lalita Devi temple nearby.
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Ambedkar Memorial Park
Sandstone elephants, and a great deal of it.
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Anand Bhavan
The Nehru family's house at Prayagraj, bought by Motilal Nehru and kept now as a museum of them.
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Annapurna Devi Temple
The goddess who feeds Kashi, a few steps from Kashi Vishwanath in Vishwanath Gali. The present temple was raised by the Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao I in the eighteenth century, and at Annakut she is shown in gold.
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Banke Bihari Temple
A temple where the curtain is drawn every few minutes, because the deity's gaze is held to be too much to meet for long.
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Barsana
Radha's village, and Lathmar Holi.
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Dudhwa National Park
Tall grassland on the Nepal border holding swamp deer, tigers, and one of the last wild populations of Indian rhinoceros in the state.
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Garhmukteshwar
The nearest Ganga to Delhi, and the Kartik fair.
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Gokul
The other side of the Yamuna, and the earliest years.
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Gorakhnath Math
The seat of the Nath yogis, named for Gorakshanath, who gave Gorakhpur its name as well.
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Govardhan Hill
The low ridge Krishna is said to have lifted on one finger; pilgrims walk round it rather than up it.
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Hanuman Garhi Temple
One of Ayodhya's principal temples, dedicated to Hanuman and kept by the Nirvani Akhara.
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Hastinapur
The Mahabharata's capital, and a Jain pilgrimage now.
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ISKCON Vrindavan
Where the movement began, in 1975.
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Kaal Bhairav Mandir, Varanasi
One of the oldest temples in Varanasi, to Bhairava, who wears a garland of skulls.
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Kashi Vishwanath
The Jyotirlinga, and the corridor that changed the city.
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Kosambi
The capital of the Vatsa kingdom in the Buddha's time, with the rampart, an Ashokan pillar and a monastery mound still on the Yamuna bank.
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Krishna Janmasthan
The prison cell Krishna is said to have been born in, and a mosque beside it.
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Kushinagar
Where the Buddha died and was cremated, marked by a reclining figure six metres long carved from a single block.
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Manikarnika Ghat
The fire that has not gone out.
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Naimisharanya
Where the Puranas were first recited.
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Nidhivan, Vrindavan
A tulsi grove in Vrindavan that devotees believe is left to Radha and Krishna alone after dark.
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Prem Mandir
Italian marble finished in 2012, lit at night in changing colour, with the Ras Leela carved around its base.
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Radha Raman Temple
A self manifested deity, and no photographs.
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Ram Janmabhoomi Temple
A sandstone temple on the Sarayu, consecrated in 2024 after a dispute that ran through Indian courts for seven decades.
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Ramnagar Fort
The Kashi Naresh's, and a museum of clocks and howdahs.
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Rihand Dam
A concrete dam holding back Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar, the largest manmade lake in the country.
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Sankat Mochan
Tulsidas's own, and Tuesday's queue.
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Shravasti
Where the Buddha spent twenty four rainy seasons.
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Swaraj Bhavan
The Nehru family's older house at Prayagraj, lived in until 1930 and renamed Swaraj Bhavan.
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Triveni Sangam
Where the Ganga and Yamuna meet in visibly different colours, and where the Kumbh Mela draws the largest gatherings on earth.
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Vindhyachal Temple
Vindhyavasini's temple above the Ganga at Mirzapur, one of the Shakti Pithas.
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Vindhyavasini Temple
One of the Shakti Peethas, above the Ganga.
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Vishalakshi Temple
A Shakti Peetha by Mir Ghat, where the goddess is Vishalakshi, the wide eyed. It sits in the lanes a short walk from Kashi Vishwanath and Manikarnika, and is one of the oldest seats of the goddess in the city.
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Śrī Rādhā Rānī Temple
Barsana's temple to Radha, on the Bhanugarh hill above the town that calls her its daughter.
Offbeat places in Uttar Pradesh (1)
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Ramgarh Tal Lake
A lake of nearly seven hundred hectares in the middle of Gorakhpur.
Hidden gems in Uttar Pradesh (28)
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Akbar's Church
A Jesuit church at Agra of 1599, the first in north India, rebuilt after Shah Jahan's men pulled it down.
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Aligarh Fort
What is left of the fort at Aligarh, a polygon of walls beside the Grand Trunk Road.
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Allahabad Museum
A museum in Chandrashekhar Azad Park holding Bharhut sculpture and Nehru's papers.
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Assi Ghat
Where the students, the yoga and the morning are.
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Bharat Mata Mandir
A temple of 1936 with no idol, only a relief map of undivided India in marble.
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Bithoor
Valmiki's ashram, and Nana Sahib's ghat.
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Chandra Prabha Sanctuary
Forest near Chandauli with the Rajdari falls in it, and the last Indian cheetah was shot nearby.
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Chunar Sandstone Quarries
Where the Ashokan pillars and half of Mughal Agra came from.
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Deogarh Dashavatara Temple
The earliest Gupta stone temple that still stands.
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Durga Mandir, Varanasi
An eighteenth century temple in red ochre beside a tank, with monkeys enough to earn its other name.
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Etawah Safari Park
A drive through safari park opened in 2019, with a breeding centre for Asiatic lions.
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Firozabad Glass Bangles
Glass bangles from furnaces that have not gone out since the Mughals, filling most of the country's wrists.
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Govardhan Parikrama
Twenty one kilometres around a hill lifted on one finger.
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Government Museum, Mathura
The red sandstone Kushan sculpture of Mathura, gathered in one octagonal building.
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Kanpur Zoological Park
Allen Forest, a hundred and ten hectares and the largest piece of green Kanpur has.
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Katarniaghat
Gharial, dolphins and the Girwa.
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Keetham Lake
A sixteenth century reservoir near Agra, a bird sanctuary and a bear rescue centre.
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Kishanpur Sanctuary
Swamp deer in tall grass beside a lake, part of the Dudhwa reserve and much quieter than the main gate.
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Massacre Ghat
Satti Chaura ghat on the Ganga at Kanpur, which took its English name from what happened here in 1857.
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Moradabad Brass Market
Brass beaten here for four centuries, and still most of what India exports in the metal.
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Nandgaon
Where Krishna grew up, across the fields from Barsana.
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Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Prani Udyan
Lucknow's zoo, seventy one acres in the middle of the city, still called Banarsi Bagh by everyone.
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Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary
A shallow lake on the Kanpur-Lucknow road where the Siberian birds stop.
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Pilibhit Tiger Reserve
Terai grassland and sal forest along the Nepal border, made a tiger reserve in 2014.
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St Joseph's Cathedral, Prayagraj
A Gothic cathedral of 1879 in the civil lines, with Italian marble and stained glass.
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The Residency
Left in ruins on purpose, shot through with cannon fire from the 1857 siege, as a memorial to both sides.
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Vijaygarh Fort
A hill fort in Sonbhadra, thirty kilometres out of Robertsganj above the Dhandhraul water.
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Vishram Ghat
The ghat where Krishna is said to have rested after killing Kansa, and where the Yamuna is worshipped every evening.
Collecting in Uttar Pradesh
What are the best places to visit in Uttar Pradesh?
LOQAH lists 91 places in Uttar Pradesh. The best known include Dashashwamedh Ghat, Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri and Jahangiri Mahal. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Uttar Pradesh?
91, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Uttar Pradesh?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Uttar Pradesh before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Uttar Pradesh and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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