Charminar

The Charminar is an extraordinary square tombstone with four minarets.  The travel icon of the Pearl City, Hyderabad, very tall to the height of 180 ft.  Charminar located in the centre of the old city, it is a picture of beauty of one and the same.

The Charminar in Hyderabad was constructed in 1591 by Mohammed Quli Qutab Shah. Charminar was built at the center of the city, to commemorate the eradication of plague". The Charminar is on the east bank of Musi River, To the northeast lies the Laad Bazaar and in the west end lies the granite-made richly ornamented Makkah Masjid

Since the construction of the Charminar, the city of Hyderabad has almost become one and the same with the memorial. The Charminar is a massive and impressive structure with four minarets. In the evening, with illumination, the great Charminar looks even greater. With the passage of time the Charminar occupied so much importance that it became the heart of all  full of life activities. 

About The Charminar

 

Charminar is a square shaped construction with four towers in the four corners of the square, each of the sides is 20 m in length.  Every side opens into a court  through  giant arches,  which overlook four major passages and dwarf other features of the building except the minarets. Each arch is 11 m wide and soars 20 m to the top from the plinth. The minarets soar skywards by 24 m from the roof of Charminar. Each minaret has 4 storeys, each appears like a delicately carved ring around the minaret. Some Anglophiles call Charminar the Arc de Triomphe of the East. From the ground to the top, the minarets cover a length of 48.7 m.