Manek Burj
Manek Burj, also spelled Manek Buraj is the foundation bastion of Bhadra Fort in the old city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The Burj is associated with legendary saint Maneknath.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Avanimodi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lokmanya Tilak Garden and Bhadra Fort.
Lokmanya Tilak Garden
Park
Photo: VAIDEHI BHAGWAT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lokmanya Tilak Garden, formerly known as Victoria Garden, is a is an urban park in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It was proposed in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee and was opened in 1905. Lokmanya Tilak Garden is situated 200 metres southeast of Manek Burj.
Bhadra Fort
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bhadra Fort is situated in the walled city area of Ahmedabad, India. It was built by Ahmad Shah I in 1411. With its well carved royal palaces, mosques, gates and open spaces, it was renovated in 2014 by the Amdavad Municipal Corporation and the Archaeological Survey of India as a cultural centre for the city. Bhadra Fort is situated 450 metres northeast of Manek Burj.
Sheth Mangaldas Girdhardas Memorial Hall
Town hall
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.
The Ahmedabad Town Hall, officially Sheth Mangaldas Girdhardas Memorial Hall, is an auditorium in Ahmedabad, India. It is named after Mangaldas Girdhardas, a textile industrialist. Built in 1930s and renovated twice, it is now abandoned. Sheth Mangaldas Girdhardas Memorial Hall is situated 680 metres west of Manek Burj.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ahmedabad and Jamalpur.
Ahmedabad
Photo: Hardik jadeja, Public domain.
Ahmedabad is the seventh largest city in India with a population of 8.5 million. Although it is the commercial hub of one of the most prosperous states of India, Gujarat, it's not the state capital, which is its twin city of Gandhinagar, 30 km to the north.
Jamalpur
Suburb
Jamalpur is a city and a notified area in Ahmedabad district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Jamalpur is part of the Jamalpur-Khadia constituency and it is a Muslim-dominated area.
Manek Chowk
Suburb
Photo: Jaimil joshi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Manek Chowk Manek Chowk is a prominent city square located in Old Ahmedabad, India. Surrounded by historical structures, it serves as a vegetable market in the morning, a bullion market in the noon, and transforms into a vibrant street food market at night.
Manek Burj
- Type: Monument
- Description: foundation bastion of Ahmedabad, India
- Categories: bastion and historic site
- Location: Sabarmati, Ahmadabad, Gujarat, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
23.02208° or 23° 1′ 20″ northLongitude
72.57734° or 72° 34′ 38″ eastOpen location code
7JMJ2HCG+RWOpenStreetMap ID
way 605629475OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q18745720
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In Other Languages
“Manek Burj” goes by many names.
- Gujarati: “માણેક બુરજ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Manek Burj”. Photo: Avanimodi, CC BY-SA 4.0.