Monday 23 January 2012

Gulab Bari accurately meaning 'Garden of Roses', the Tomb of Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula, this leave has a good collected works of roses of a range of variety set by the side of water fountain. Gulab Bari is the maqbara (Mausoleum) of Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula, the third Nawab of Oudh (now Awadh) in the site.Shuja-ud-Daula the Nawab of Awadh among Four Sons, General Barker and other Military officer.
The Nawab grace Faizabad with several beautiful buildings, distinguished among them is the Gulab Bari, Moti Mahal and the tomb of Bahu Begum. Gulab Bari is a gorgeous building of fine structural design, position in a garden bordered by a partition, easy to talk to through two huge gateways. Ayodhya and Faizabad are twin cities. Shuja-ud-Daula's wife was the well known Bahu Begum, who wedded the Nawab in 1743 and sustained to live in Faizabad, her house being the Moti-Mahal. Close by at Jawaharbagh lies her Maqbara, where she was hidden after her death in 1816. It is careful to be one of the supreme buildings of its type in Avadh, which was build at the price of three lakh rupees by her head guide Darab Ali Khan. A fine outlook of the city is reachable from top of the begum's tomb. Bahu Begum was a woman of great peculiarity and rank, behavior dignity. Most of the Muslim building of Faizabad is credited to her. From the date of Bahu Begum's bereavement in 1815 till the takeover of Avadh, the city of Faizabad slowly fell into decompose. The magnificence of Faizabad finally eclipse with the changing of capital from Faizabad to Lucknow by Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula.


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