Badami Bagh
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.- Type: Military installation
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Badam Bagh”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Shankaracharya Temple and Shankaracharya Hill.
Shankaracharya Temple
Hindu temple
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Shankaracharya Temple or Jyeshteshwara Temple is a Hindu temple situated on top of the Zabarwan Range in Srinagar in the Kashmir Valley of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Shankaracharya Temple is situated 2 km northwest of Badami Bagh.
Shankaracharya Hill
Peak
Shankaracharya Temple or Jyeshteshwara Temple is a Hindu temple situated on top of the Zabarwan Range in Srinagar in the Kashmir Valley of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Zero Bridge
Photo: Sarkaaaar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zero Bridge is a wooden arch pedestrian bridge in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. It spans the Jhelum River, connecting the Sonwar area on the north bank with Rajbagh on the south. Zero Bridge is situated 2½ km west of Badami Bagh.
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.
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.
Rajbagh
Suburb
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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.
Badami Bagh
- Category: cantonment town
- Location: Srinagar North, Srīnagar District, Jammu and Kashmir, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.06343° or 34° 3′ 48″ northLongitude
74.85355° or 74° 51′ 13″ eastOpen location code
8J6P3V73+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 1794591354OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryWikidata ID
Q582982
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In Other Languages
From Bishnupriya to Vietnamese—“Badami Bagh” goes by many names.
- Bishnupriya: “বাদামি বাগ”
- Chinese: “Badami Bagh”
- Chinese: “巴达米巴格”
- Chinese: “巴達米巴格”
- Dutch: “Badami Bagh”
- French: “Badami Bagh”
- Hindi: “बादामी बाग”
- Italian: “Badami Bagh”
- Kashmiri: “بادام باغ”
- Kashmiri: “بادامی باغ”
- Malagasy: “Badami Bagh”
- Malay: “Badami Bagh”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Badami Bagh”
- Newari: “बादामी बाग”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਦਾਮੀ ਬਾਗ”
- Portuguese: “Badami Bagh”
- Spanish: “Badami Bagh”
- Tamil: “பாதமி பாக்”
- Vietnamese: “Badami Bagh”
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Notable Places Nearby
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