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.
- Where
- Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Grade
- National monument
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 5 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 26.8697, 80.9126
Get the Bara Imambara stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Bara Imambara. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Uttar Pradesh volume with your photos and a note.
Near Bara Imambara
Rumi Darwaza 0.2 km
A sixty foot gateway of the Awadh court, built when the nawabs could no longer afford stone and worked in brick and plaster instead.
Chota Imambara 0.9 km
Built in 1838 as a mausoleum, hung with Belgian chandeliers, and lit for Muharram as it always was.
Sikandar Bagh 1.6 km
A garden and villa where the 1857 siege ended in a massacre, now a botanical institute.
The Residency 2.1 km
Left in ruins on purpose, shot through with cannon fire from the 1857 siege, as a memorial to both sides.
Chattar Manzil 2.3 km
A Nawabi palace on the Gomti with an umbrella dome, built over a cellar cooled by the river.
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Prani Udyan 4.9 km
Lucknow's zoo, seventy one acres in the middle of the city, still called Banarsi Bagh by everyone.
Dilkusha Kothi 5.9 km
An English baroque hunting lodge of 1800, wrecked in the 1857 siege and left as a shell in a garden.
Ambedkar Memorial Park 6.7 km
Sandstone elephants, and a great deal of it.
More national monuments in Uttar Pradesh
Questions
Where is Bara Imambara?
Bara Imambara is in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Rumi Darwaza (0.2 km), Chota Imambara (0.9 km), Sikandar Bagh (1.6 km).
How do I get the Bara Imambara stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Bara Imambara and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Uttar Pradesh volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Bara Imambara before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Uttar Pradesh volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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