A great News for Kashmir Valley Kolkata Travel Agencies Unite to Revive Kashmir Tourism with ‘Chalo Kashmir’ Campaign Kolkata, May 19 – In a strong show of solidarity, almost 100 travel agencies and tourism partners from Kolkata have joined forces under the banner ‘Chalo Kashmir’ to boost tourism in the Kashmir valley following the recent Pahalgam attack. The […]

Mazar-i-Salateen (Graveyard of Rulers) Tomb of Zain-ul- Abidin | Ahanger HOBO. This tomb is another secret gem of Mughal architecture, built from the bricks and on the basement of an older temple, that remains hidden in between the 4th and 5th bridges of the old city and is definitely worth a look if you are […]

Ali Masjid (at Eidgah) by Ahanger HOBO. Ali Masjid was built by Ali Shah’s son of Sultan Sikander and is located at the modern day Eidgah (Eidgah denoting a ground where Eid prayers are offered). The mosque was built next to a fertile grazing ground as a necessity for the yaks and horses of the […]

Hassanbad Imambara and Graveyard by Ahanger HOBO. Hassanbad is named after the Shia scholar Baba Hassan and the Hassanbad locality was once the epicenter of arts and crafts in Srinagar. Now a quiet and quaint locality you can reach here by Shikara from the Dal or walk toward the Nageen Lake from the Gurdwara in […]

Mazar-i-Shuhada (Graveyard of Martyrs) by Ahanger HOBO Taking a walk along the Valley floor it becomes obvious to the explorer that the history of Kashmir can be retold through its myriad mosques and shrines. Now, it was in the 20th Century that another narrative symbol came to define the modern Kashmir, that of the Martyr’s […]

Jamia Masjid Srinagar Kashmir by Ahanger HOBO. The main mosque of Srinagar is located in Nowhatta, the beating heart of the old city. Built for the first time in 1400 by Sultan Sikander, it is a large cathedral-like rectangle that echoes Buddhist monastic architecture, and was possibly built on the ancient site of a Buddhist […]

Pather Masjid Srinagar by Ahanger HOBO. Standing on the banks of the Jhelum opposite the Shah-i-Hamdan is the beautiful and cool open plan mosque of Empress Nur Jehan. The only of its kind in Srinagar, it is surrounded by an old stone wall, leaving the mosque quiet and calm and relatively free from distraction. Upon […]

Fort Hari-Parbat / Koh-i-Maran | by Ahanger HOBO Visible from everywhere in the city is this central fort that overlooks all. According to legend, the Koh e Maran hill was once a huge lake inhabited by the demon Jalobhava. The inhabitants called on the goddess Parvati for help. She took the form of a bird […]