Sikandar Bagh Lucknow

Sikandar Bagh Lucknow

Sikander Bagh Lucknow was built by Wajid Ali Shah Bahadur in (A.D.1847-56) , the last Nawab of Awadh in the memory of his favorite Queen Sikander Mahal, Sikandar Bagh Lucknow was built for queen. The construction of Sikander Bagh was completed in one year at the cost of five lakh rupees. The architects of Sikandar Bagh Lucknow palace were Gulaam Ali Rza Khan, Dianut-ud-Daula, Sabit Ali etc.

Sikandar Bagh Lucknow Originally, It was a high enclosure built of lakhauri bricks plastered with lime and decorated with plaster moldings containing a summer house and a garden, presently part of fortification wall and a small mosque with an imposing gateway only are surviving. During freedom struggle,a fierce battle was fought in this bagh on 16 November 1857 in which hundreds of British and 2000 freedom fighters lost their lives which also included a lady warrior who killed a number of British sepoy before being shot-dead. In the bagh of one side a statue of Virangna Udaddevi (paasi), who killed 36 British sepoy, before being shot-dead. Sikander Bagh is a protected monument, it is a garden of archaeological survey of India-Lucknow circle.

The garden was laid out in about 1800 as a royal garden by Nawab Saadat Ali Khan. It was later improved upon by Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, the last native ruler of Oudh, during the first half of the 19th century, who used it as his summer villa. The garden has a small pavilion in the middle, which was likely the scene of innumerable performances of the Ras-lilas, and Kathak dances, music and poetic ‘mehfils’ and other cultural activities which the last Nawab had a great appreciation for, indeed possibly too great a one as history has judged him to have been over-fond of his leisure interests.
How to reach.

Sikander Bagh is situated at Sikander bagh chauraha and here reaching is very easy. Straight way from charbagh railway station. You can come by auto-rikshaw,bus,taxi.