Defence Colony

Worth seeing in and around Defence Colony

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Lotus Temple

   The Lotus Temple, also known as the Baháʼí House of Worship, New Delhi, is a Baháʼí House of Worship at Bahapur in south Delhi, India. Designed by the architect Fariborz Sahba, it takes the form of a half-open lotus of 27 free-standing marble-clad concrete petals, arranged in three rings of nine around a central hall.

   3.4 km · Bahá'í House of Worship in Delhi, India · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

   Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is a multi-sports stadium located in New Delhi, India. It is named after the first Prime Minister of India.

   1.5 km · building in India · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Gandhi Smriti

   Gandhi Smriti, formerly known as Birla House or Birla Bhavan, is a museum dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, situated on Tees January Road, formerly Albuquerque Road, in New Delhi, India. It is the location where Mahatma Gandhi spent the last 144 days of his life and was assassinated on 30 January 1948.

   3.9 km · museum and death place of Mahatma Gandhi, in New Delhi, India · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Lodi Gardens

   Lodi Gardens is a city park situated in New Delhi. Spread over 90 acres, it contains Muhammad Shah's tomb, the tomb of Sikandar Lodi, the Shisha Gumbad and the Bara Gumbad.

   2.9 km · city park in India · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Kalka Mandir

   Kalkaji Mandir is a Hindu temple dedicated to Kali, a Hindu goddess. It is in southern Delhi, in Kalkaji, a place whose name derives from the temple.

   3.7 km · temple in Delhi, India · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Lal Bangla

   Lal Bangla are two imperial late-Mughal mausoleums located in New Delhi in Delhi, India, that are protected monuments under the Archaeological Survey of India.

   3.5 km · building in India · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Siri Fort

   Siri Fort, in the city of Delhi, was built during the rule of Alauddin Khalji, second ruler of Khalji Dynasty, of Delhi Sultanate to defend the city from the onslaught of the Mongols. It was the second of the seven cities of medieval Delhi built around 1303 which at present is seen only in ruins with a few remnants due to its poor quality construction as compared to previous fort constructions in India.

   2.1 km · fort in New Dehli, India · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Lady Shri Ram College for Women

   Lady Shri Ram College is a constituent women's college, affiliated with the University of Delhi.

   1.4 km · constituent women's college of the University of Delhi for Social Sciences, Humanities and Commerce · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Nila Gumbad

   Nila Gumbad is a tomb located within the Humayun's Tomb complex at Delhi, India. Historians are unsure about the identity of the person who has been buried.

   3.3 km · building in India · Wikipedia
10. 10
    ISKCON Temple Delhi

    Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi Mandir, generally known as the ISKCON Temple Delhi, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Krishna and Radha in the form of Radha Parthasarathi. The temple was inaugurated on 5 April 1998 by the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the presence of the former Chief Minister of Delhi, Sahib Singh Verma, and Sushma Swaraj.

    1.9 km · radha Krishna Temple in Delhi, India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Defence Colony

Airports

Indira Gandhi (DEL), 13 km · Noida (DXN), 57 km · Maharaja Agrasen (HSS), 160 km

Stations

Safdarjung Airport, 2.9 km · Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station, 3 km · AIIMS metro station, 2.2 km · Jor Bagh metro station, 2.5 km · Moolchand metro station, 800 m

• Gautam Buddha Nagar → Defence Colony

  42 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · ₹350–440
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• Hisar → Defence Colony

  161 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · ₹1,160–1,450
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• Chandigarh → Defence Colony

  245 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · ₹1,760–2,200
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