Mehrauli
Mehrauli is a neighbourhood in South Delhi, Delhi, India. It represents a constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly. The area is close to Gurugram and next to Vasant Kunj.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: neighbourhood in the South district of Delhi in India
- Also known as: “Mahrauli”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Qutb Minar and Qutb Minar complex.
Qutb Minar
Monument
Photo: Akbarzoda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Qutb Minar, also spelled Qutub Minar and Qutab Minar, is a minaret and victory tower, built during the Delhi sultanate, and comprising the Qutb complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mehrauli, South Delhi, India.
Qutb Minar complex
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.
The Qutb Minar complex are monuments and buildings from the Delhi Sultanate at Mehrauli in Delhi, India. Construction of the Qutub Minar "victory tower" in the complex, named after the religious figure Sufi Saint Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, was begun by Qutb-ud-din Aibak, who later became the first Sultan of Delhi of the Mamluk dynasty.
Iron pillar of Delhi
Monument
Photo: Pawan.kamrani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The iron pillar of Delhi is a metal structure 7.21 metres high with a 41-centimetre diameter that was constructed by Chandragupta II, and now stands in the Qutb complex at Mehrauli in Delhi, India.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saket and Malviya Nagar.
Saket
Suburb
Photo: Amartyabag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saket is a residential colony and the administrative headquarters of the South Delhi district of Delhi in India. The local district headquarters are also situated on M.B. Saket is situated 3½ km east of Mehrauli.
Malviya Nagar
Suburb
Malviya Nagar is a residential locality in South Delhi. Situated between Saket and Hauz Khas, its namesake is the freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya. Malviya Nagar was initially a part of the Shahpur Jat village, in which after partition was populated in the 1950s by refugees from Pakistan, after the Partition of India. Malviya Nagar is situated 3½ km east of Mehrauli.
Munirka
Locality
Munirka is a neighborhood in South Delhi, located near Jawaharlal Nehru University and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi campuses. Its neighborhood consists of the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on the south, Vasant Vihar on the northwest, Rama Krishna Puram on the northern side and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi campus and Ber Sarai on south-eastern front. Munirka is situated 3½ km north of Mehrauli.
Mehrauli
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Mehrauli, South Delhi, Delhi, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
28.52183° or 28° 31′ 19″ northLongitude
77.17832° or 77° 10′ 42″ eastElevation
258 metres (846 feet)Open location code
7JWVG5CH+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 312921217OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Mehrauli” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مهرولي”
- Azerbaijani: “Mehrauli”
- Bengali: “মহরৌলি”
- Bengali: “মেহরাউলি”
- Czech: “Mehrauli”
- Dutch: “Mehrauli”
- German: “Mehrauli”
- Hindi: “महरौली”
- Japanese: “メヘラウリー”
- Kashmiri: “مہرولی”
- Malayalam: “മെഹ്റൗളി”
- Panjabi: “ਮਹਿਰੌਲੀ”
- Persian: “مهرولی”
- Russian: “Мехраули”
- Swedish: “Mehrauli”
- Tamil: “மெக்ராலி, தில்லி”
- Tamil: “மெக்ராலி”
- Thai: “เมหราวลี”
- Ukrainian: “Меграулі”
- Ukrainian: “Мехраулі”
- Urdu: “مہرؤلی”
- Western Panjabi: “مہرؤلی”
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