Pari Mahal
Pari Mahal is a seven-terraced Mughal garden built on the top of the Zabarwan mountain range. It overlooks the city of Srinagar and the south-west of Dal Lake in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. This garden is a fine example of Islamic…Photo: Vinay Parepalli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Historic site
- Description: building in Srinagar, India
- Also known as: “Parimahal” and “Structural complex of Pari Mahal”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chashme Shahi and Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden.
Chashme Shahi
Garden
Photo: Amitraina, Public domain.
Chashme Shahi, Chashma i Shahi, or Cheshma Shahi, also called Chashma Shahi or Cheshma Shahi, is one of the Mughal gardens built in 1632 AD around a spring by Ali Mardan Khan, a governor of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as per the orders of the Emperor, as a gift for his eldest son Prince Dara Shikoh. Chashme Shahi is situated 1 km northeast of Pari Mahal.
Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden
Garden
Photo: Kevin.abraham335, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip garden, previously Model Floriculture Center, is a tulip garden in Srinagar, in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden is situated 2 km north of Pari Mahal.
Badami Bagh
Military installation
Badami Bagh or Badam Bagah is a cantonment town on the outskirts of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Established in the 1920s as military barracks on a site containing several ancient Hindu and Budhhist ruins near Pandrethan, the Badami Bagh Cantonment currently serves as the headquarters of the Indian Army's Chinar Corps, with many of the army's soldiers residing here. Badami Bagh is situated 3 km southwest of Pari Mahal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Indira Nagar and Sonwar Bagh.
Indira Nagar
Suburb
Indira Nagar is a residential area in the city of Srinagar in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It used to be a lake before but now only a few hundred meters of the lake are left. Indira Nagar is situated 3 km southwest of Pari Mahal.
Sonwar Bagh
Suburb
Sonwar Bagh, sometimes referred to as Sonwar, is a residential area in the Badami Bagh Cantonment region on the outskirts of Srinagar city, in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Sonwar Bagh is situated 3½ km west of Pari Mahal.
Rajbagh
Suburb
Photo: Sarkaaaar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rajbagh is a notified area in the municipal committee of Srinagar, in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It comes under the Lal chowk constituency. Rajbagh is situated 5 km west of Pari Mahal.
Pari Mahal
- Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Kangan, Ganderbal District, Jammu and Kashmir, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.08102° or 34° 4′ 52″ northLongitude
74.8771° or 74° 52′ 38″ eastElevation
1,748 metres (5,735 feet)Open location code
8J6P3VJG+CROpenStreetMap ID
way 62069801OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yes
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Pari Mahal” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Pari Mahal”
- Bengali: “পরী মহল”
- Bengali: “পরীদের প্রাসাদ”
- Bengali: “পিয়ার মহল”
- Cebuano: “Pari Mahal”
- Kashmiri: “پری محل”
- Malayalam: “പരിമഹൽ”
- Panjabi: “ਪਰੀ ਮਹਿਲ”
- Persian: “پری محل”
- Urdu: “پری محل”
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