Jaunpur History: Jaunpur is a city in Uttar Pradesh which is known for its mosques. Much of this recognition is owing to the situation of Jami Masjid in Jaunpur, India. Hence, due to an influx of a large number of visitors, Jaunpur Jami Masjid has become one of the major Tourist Attractions in Jaunpur.

There are many historical sites and worth-seeing sights in the jaunpur. All the historic & worth-seeing spots have their own special importance. The main ones among these are:

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Jaunpur History: Jaunpur is a city in Uttar Pradesh which is known for its mosques. Much of this recognition is owing to the situation of Jami Masjid in Jaunpur, India. Hence, due to an influx of a large number of visitors, Jaunpur Jami Masjid has become one of the major Tourist Attractions in Jaunpur.

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CHRONOLOGY of the Sharqi Sultanate of Jaunpur, India

Legacy of the Sharqi Kingdom of Jaunpur

There are many historical sites and worth-seeing sights in the jaunpur. All the historic & worth-seeing spots have their own special importance. The main ones among these are:

SHAHI QILA: Situated in the heart of the city on the left bank of the Gomti, Shahi Qila was built by Freoze Shah in 1362 A.D. The inner gate of this fort is 26.5 ft. high and 16 ft. wide. The central gate is 36 ft. high. A top this there is a huge dome. At present only its eastern gate and, within, some arches etc. remain which narrate the tale of its ancient splendor. Muneer Khan had got its majestic front gate built with a view to security and it was decorated with blue and yellow stones.

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Jaunpur Fort (Karar Fort)

Karar fort or Shahi Qila Jaunpur

Jaunpur Fort Build by Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Jaunpur Fort (Karar Fort)

Jaunpur Shiraaz e Hind

ATALA MASJID: Atala Masjid or Atala Mosque is a 15th century mosque in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of the chief tourist attractions in Jaunpur. The mosque bears the evidences of the times in which it was built. The Atala Masjid is a useful specimen of mosques, not only in Uttar Pradesh but also in India.

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ATALA MOSQUE built by Sultan Ibrahim (1401-1440), Sharqi

Atala Masjid or Atala Mosque of 15th century

Atala Masjid or Atala Mosque of 15th century

Atala masjid Hindi

TEMPLE OF MA SHEETA CHAUKIYA DEVI: The temple of Ma Sheetla Chaukiya Devi is quite old. The worship of Shiv and Shakti has been going on since times immemorial. History states that, during the era of Hindu kings, the governance of Jaunpur was in the hands of Ahir rulers. Heerchand Yadav is considered the first Aheer ruler of Jaunpur. The descendants of this clan used to surname ‘Ahir’. These people built forts at Chandvak and Gopalpur. It is believed that the temple of Chaukiya Devi was built in the glory of their clan-deity either by the Yadavs or the Bhars- but in view of the predilections of the Bhars, it seems more logical to conclude that this temple was built by the Bhars. The Bhars were non-Aryans. The worship of Shiv and Shakti was prevalent in the non-Armyans. The Bhars held power in Jaunpur. At first, the Devi must have been installed on a praised platform or ‘chaukiya’ and probably because of this she was referred to as Chaukia Devi. Devu Sheetla is the representative blissful aspect of the Divine Mother: hence she was called Sheetla. On Mondays and Fridays, worshippers come here in quite large numbers. Huge crowds gather here during the Navratris             Sheetla Chaukia

Famous Mandirs of Jaunpur

Pandariba shivala

Nagpanchami shiv mandir

Tirlochan Mahadev

Aao chalein mandir ki Aor

JHANJHARI MASJID: This mosque is in the Sipah locality of Jaunpur on the northern bank of the Gomti. This mosque, which also gives its name to the adjoining muhalla, was erected by Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi with the material of Vijaya Chandra’s temple of mukatghat, said to have been demolished by Sultan Firuz. This mosque is also known by the name of Chachikpur. Sultan Ibrahim built it for the convenienc…

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MASJID LAL DARWAZA: This mosque has been built by V.V.Raje, wife of Sultan Mahamud Shah Sharki in 1455 A.D. at Begumganj, a mile north of the city. Its outer area is 212 x 188 sq.ft. It has three gateways and a courtyard. On two of its pillars some inscriptions in Sanskrit and Pali are there which do not shed much light except for the samvat year and the names of some kings of Kannauj.

Darbiya Mosque or Khalis Mikhlis Mosque:This mosque is known variously as the Darbiya Mosque or Khalis Mikhlis Mosque or Chahar Ungli mosque. It was built by two Chief nobles of Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi, Malik Mukhlis and Malik Khalis, in 1430 in honour of a celebrated saint, Sayyid Usman Shirazi.

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KHALIS MUKLIS Or Darbiya Mosque or Chaar Ungli MOSQUE

Historical Masjid (Chaar Angul ki Masjid)

Badi Masjid : With a height of more than 200 ft. this mosque near Purani Bazar on the Shahganj road is an important monument of the Sharki period. Its foundation has been laid at the time of Ibrahim Shah’s rule and its construction was completed in various phases. It was finished during the reign of Hussain Shah. This mosque is quite extensive, artistic and attractive and there are 27 steps to the top. Its southern gateway is 20 ft. above ground level. Its inner premises extend to 219 x 217 feet and has a gateway at each of the 4 cardinal points. The eastern gateway was destroyed by Sikander Lodhi. The outer boundary of the mosque is 320 ft. on the East-West and 307 ft. on the North-south side. The decorations, its engravings in the Egyptian style, the curves of its arches, the uniqueness of the Lotus, sunflower and rose motifs, its screens etc. are worth seeing.

Ibrahim Shah Sharqi

Badi Masjid Jaunpur India of sharqi Period.

Badi Masjid Jaunpur

Ibrahim Sharqi Qabr Turning Marble

SHAHI PUL: The first thing to catch your fancy in Jaunpur is the picturesque stone bridge over Gumpti river. For reasons best known to the Sharqis, they never thought of a concrete bridge but managed their affairs through a bridge of boats that was destined to vanish with their decline.

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Beauty of Shahi Bridge Jaunpur

A View of the bridge at Jaunpur (Jionpoor) over the River Goomty

Shahi bridge Images

Shahi bridge gajraj Murti

Shahi pull se Gomti Ka nazara

JAMA MASHID, MACCHALISHAHAR: This ancient mosque was constructed during the reign of Hussain Shah Sharki. There is a surfeit of simplicity in it. There are no arches in this mosque. Earlier there was a rock inscription here with has been destroyed now.

OTHER BUILDINGS: Besides the above mentioned monuments, there is a Munyeem Khan-built Sher-ki-masjid at Shahi Pul & Idgah on the Allahabad road; Sadar Imambara built during Muhammad Shah’s time; Jalalpur bridge; Jama Masjid at Madiyahun; Shiv Temple built by the king Sri Krishnadutta at Dharmapur; Hindi Bhavan in the city; Kali Temple in Kerakat; Shivlinga of Harshvardhan era; Gomteshwar Mahadev (Kerakat); Van Vihar; Paramhansa’s Samidhi (Village Aunka, Dhaniyamau), Gasuri Shankar temple (Sujanganj); Gurudwara (Rasmadal); Hanuman Temple (Rasmadal); Sharda Temple (Parmanatpur); Vijethua Mahavir; Kabir Math (Basetha Village, Machhalishahar); sadar imambara (Ranno) ; etc. which are of note.

GUJAR TAL: Two moles west of Kheta Sarai is the well-known Gujartal in which pisciculture is being done these days. The ambience of the lake is scenic and close-to-nature. The Van Vihar situated on the T.D.College Kuddupur Road also attracts the tourists.

Museum : The Archaeological Museum in Jaunpur, India, is under strict supervision of the famous T.D. College in Uttar Pradesh.The Archaeological Museum of Jaunpur also displays a number of ancient coins which served as the medium of exchange in their respective time periods.he Archaeological Museum, Jaunpur does not charge any entry fee… Museums at jaunpur

Famous fruits and vegetables

Jaunpuri Musk Melon (Kharbuza)

Famous Sweets of Jaunpur

Four to Six feet long Jaunpuri Newar species of mooli(radish )

Jamaitha Kharbooza

Sadar Imambara:

Gomti River Behind Sadar Imambara Jaunpur

Historical Unknown Construction near Sadar Imambara

Sadar Imambara Jaunpur (Rauza masumeen(a.s)

Grave Yard Sadar Imambara Jaunpur

Panjae sharif jaunpur:

Rauza masumeen(a.s) Panjae sharif jaunpur

Rauza Panjae Sharif jaunpur Part 3

Rauza Panjae Sharif Part 4

Panje sharif jaunpur Part 2

Historical Rauza Panje Sharaif Jaunpur.

Qadam E Rasool(s.a.w)

Qadm e Rasool(s.a.w) Historical Qadam

Qadm e Rasoom(s.a.w) part 2

Imam pur:

Historical Rauza Imampur Jaunpur

Hamzapur:

Hamzapur jaunpur Historical Rauza Masumeen(a.s)

For the first time in 1818 A.D. the Deputy Collectorateship was established and later it became a separate district. In 1820 A.D., Azamgarh district was also brought under Jaunpur but some part of Azamgar in 1822 and the whole of Azamgarh in 1830 A.D. was separated from Jaunpur.

Anna Hazare’s movement for anti – corruption now getting support at Jaunpur . Here citizens give their presence in “India against Corruption Movement” in different ways. Social workers, Journalists, Doctors, Teachers praised in Gandhi Park near Kharka Colony in Jaunpur city and at villages like Baksha, madiyahoon,sirkoni,jalalpur and sirkoni  by protest march.

Famous Pedriotric Cardiologist Dr. Kshitij Sharma led Candile March. At Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal university, students of Engineering College broke out a rally in campus and showed their anger towards corruption. Engineering Student submitted their presence in all India anti corruption movement.

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In our present world, the means of communication and conveying thoughts and information, has developed rapidly, seeming to travel at the speed of light and sound, and reaches every angle of the world within a few seconds.

There are a great number of institutions, equipment and special devices for mass enlightenment, establishing general opinions and individual resolutions.

In addition, the means of communication and information, like television, radio, internal waves, computers, Internet,newspapers, books, magazines…have become the dominant power upon the thoughts and a means of establishing a pattern for conduct.

Therefore, the media contributes in the establishment of political thoughts, as well as, individual positions and thoughts, and it contributes immensely, especially the pictorial type, like, television, Internet,cinema, Video, and pornographic magazines, in affecting the general thought and conduct of the people.

The youths – especially at the puberty stage – are active and ready, more than other people, to copy other personalities, and are influenced by the people who appear on the screen of television or cinema.

They are influenced by other people who play a vital role in the political, social and revolutionary arena, as well as, great historical heroes. This is because a youth – whether male or female – is in the stage of building his or her personality. Therefore, he or she needs someone to copy.

Since instinct and desires, especially the sexual instinct, are at their highest peak and putting pressure on the youths, so they are looking for a solution to it, therefore, the media have contributed, immensely, in stirring and arousing the sexual instinct by means of pornographic and seductive films, pictures, stories, as well as, cultures, like the use of guerilla warfare tactics and aggression in films which contribute, a lot, in deviating the youths and teaching them criminal acts. In view of this, some governments are prohibiting the showing of pornographic and guerilla warfare films, often prohibiting the youth from attending the theaters where these films are shown.

The result of the statistics on viewing videos conducted by Dr. Alexander Aldila in Lebanon shows that: "The viewing of social and emotional films wins the first position while detective films win the second position…"(The Role of Communication and Information in a Complete Personality, page 315.)

Another report states that: The studies conducted in the U.S on 110 people in a corrections institute show that 49% of them got the desire of carrying weapons from watching the cinema and 12-21 % of them found the audacity to steal and kill police from the same source.

While the studies conducted on 252 deviated young girls, between the ages of 14-18, shows that 25% of them had sexual relationships as a result of watching pornographic films in the cinema and 41 % of them were led to glamorous ceremonies, night theaters and 54% of them cut school in order to watch films, while 17% of them left their homes as a result of the conflict between them and their family on going to the cinema.

A W.H.O report and, also, a French Judge, about the factors of deviation, say: "I don’t have any doubt that some films, especially detective films, play a great, harmful role in most of the cases."

A questionnaire and cross examination on 1344 personalities conducted in Britain on the relationship between the cinema and corruption of children under 16, found that 600 of them answered that there is a relationship between the cinema and children’s deviation.

Other studies also show that most of the stealing and robbing, which happens in the West, has an effect from the cinema.(Ali Muhammad Ja’afar, Abdath al-Munharifun, page 81)

A negative influence in teenagers is the use of cigars by celebrity movie stars, the constant exposure of sex images, the excessive images of violence and exposure to thousands of junk food ads. Another negative influence in teenagers that has grown over the last years are anorexia and obesity. There are millions of adolescents fighting obesity, but at the same time they are exposed to thousands of advertisements of junk food, while the ideas image of a successful person is told to be thin and wealthy.

At last, it can be concluded that watching emotional films, pornographic, detective films and misuse of social networking websites is corrupting people, and furthermore, as scientific studies confirm, the youth at this stage, can be influenced by all this, because he is on the verge of his growth.

we should make our kids and teen aware that war is not a form of entertainment and that there is no win or lose like in video games, in real war everyone lose.

From all these statistics, we can deduce that the work of the mass media in the formation of emotions and conduct involving instinct, as well as, copying the role of the heroes, is important.

Dr Lalji Singh of Jaunpur utter pradesh is   the new Vice-Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu Unversity (BHU). He is expected to take the new charge on August 11,2011. The President of India had last night announced the name of Dr Lalji Singh as the new VC of the central BHU for a term of three ye+

Dr Lalji is the former director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), located in Hyderabad, India. He is a respected and widely acclaimed Molecular Biologist in India. His areas of his research interest involves molecular basis of sex determination, DNA fingerprinting, wildlife conservation, silkworm genome analysis, human genome and ancient DNA studies.

Dr Lalji Singh was born on July 5, 1947 at Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh and obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1964. He won the Banaras Hindu Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit in the M.Sc. in Zoology examination of 1966, and was awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) from the University Grants Commission (U.G.C) that year. He went on to receive a Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) from CSIR in 1972. He then went on to earn a Ph.D. degree in 1971 from the Banaras Hindu University for his work on "Evolution of karyotypes in snakes" in the area of Cytogenetics.

During 1970 to 1972 Lalji was Research Associate at the Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University and later on Pool Officer at the Calcutta University during April – September 1974. He was awarded Commonwealth Fellowship in 1974 to carry out research at the Edinburgh University U.K from 1974 to 1976. Later on he worked as Research Associate in two stints (1977-79 and 1979-87) at the same university. During his leave from U.K. he joined Calcutta University (Department of Zoology) as Guest Scientist (October 1976 – April 1977). From July to September 1979 Lalji was invited as Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. Lalji was awarded Dr. S. P. Basu Memorial Medal of Zoological Society, Calcutta in 1973 for his outstanding contribution in the field of Cytogenetics. In 1974 Indian National Science Academy decorated him with Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists.