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Asfi Masjid

Lucknow Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula has started construction of Bara Imambara in 1785 with prime object of generating employment for the natives. This took about six years [ work complete in 1791] and an investment of nearly one million rupees for creating this fabulous Islamic monument.

 

Asfi Masjid, shrine named after the Nawab’s name is a construction inside the Bara Imambara. Asfi Masjid or Asfi Mosque is the last monument constructed without use of Iron and any help from the Europeans experts of building construction

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Uploaded on October 13, 2016
Taken on September 3, 2016