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Hazratganj

Hazratganj is the central business district of Lucknow, the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Hazratganj
Hazratganj · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Hazratganj is the central business district of Lucknow, the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In addition to bazaars, it also contains shopping complexes, restaurants, hotels, theatres, cafés and many offices. It is connected to the Lucknow Metro by the Hazratganj metro station.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hazratganj

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
    Bara Imambara

    The Bara Imambara, also known as the Asafi Imambara, is a significant imambara and mosque complex located in Lucknow, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Built by Asaf-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Awadh, in 1784, it is the world's second largest imambara, after the Nizamat Imambara.

    3.7 km · Islamic congregation hall in Lucknow, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

    The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, also known as Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of bicameral legislature of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house.

    900 m · lower house of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University of Lucknow

    The University of Lucknow is a public research university in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1864 in Lucknow as Canning College, it is one of the India’s 17 oldest universities established during British India, the 10th oldest university in present-day India, the fourth-oldest university in Uttar Pradesh, and the first state university in Uttar Pradesh.

    1.7 km · state public university in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucknow

    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lucknow ) is a diocese centred in the city of Lucknow in the ecclesiastical province of Agra in India. St.

    200 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Rumi Darwaza

    The Rumi Darwaza, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, is a gateway which was built by Nawab Asaf-Ud-Daula in 1784. It is an example of Awadhi architecture.

    3.8 km · Historical monument in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sikandar Bagh

    Sikandar Bagh, formerly known by the British as Sikunder/Sikandra/Secundra Bagh, is a villa and garden enclosed by a fortified wall, with loopholes, gateway and corner bastions, approx. 150 yards square, c.

    2.1 km · present day Park which was stormed in 1857 by the British during the Indian Rebellion · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Chattar Manzil

    The Chattar Manzil, or Umbrella Palace is a building in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh which served as a palace for the rulers of Awadh and their wives.

    1.4 km · palace in Uttar Pradesh, India · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Firangi Mahal

    Firangi Mahal is a building complex located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. The word Firang refers to Europeans and Mahal means palace in Persian.

    4 km · Firangi Mahal monument of Lucknow · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    The Residency Lucknow

    The Residency, also called as the British Residency and Residency Complex, is a group of several buildings in a common precinct in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It served as the residence for the British Resident General who was a representative in the court of the Nawab of Awadh or Oudh.

    2.1 km · building complex in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    National Botanical Research Institute

    The National Botanical Research Institute is a research institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is engaged in the field of taxonomy and modern biology.

    900 m · Uttar Pradesh Government Research Institute · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Hazratganj

Airports
Chaudhary Charan Singh (LKO), 12 km · Lal Bahadur Shastri (VNS), 247 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 255 km
Stations
Lucknow Charbagh railway station, 3 km · Lucknow Junction railway station, 3.4 km · Badshahnagar railway station, 2.5 km · Durgapuri metro station, 3.6 km · Lucknow City railway station, 2.7 km
  • Varanasi → Hazratganj
    268 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · ₹1,920–2,410
  • Gautam Buddha Nagar → Hazratganj
    371 km · quickest by air, 4h 44m · ₹5,590–8,540
  • New Delhi → Hazratganj
    417 km · quickest by air, 4h 34m · ₹5,880–9,030
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hazratganj

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hazratganj. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTaxi and rickshaw drivers in Lucknow are of the more insistent type, although few of them speak enough English to go to locations that are out of the way.
  • Get aroundCNG buses and rickshaws are available to get you around the whole city.
  • Get aroundThe rickshaw pullers are available everywhere from Gomti Nagar to Hazratganj.
  • Get aroundCycle rickshaws contribute less pollution to this historic city than their motorised cousins, and provide work to some who need it most.

From Wikivoyage: Lucknow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    329 km
  2. 02
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    364 km
  3. 03
    ChitkulIN

    7 ways of moving, 20 sources

    556 km
  4. 04
    Tirthan ValleyIN

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    632 km
  5. 05
    KazaIN

    7 ways of moving, 18 sources

    659 km

If you know how people move in Hazratganj – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hazratganj

Hazratganj is 3 km from Lucknow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.