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Lerhupur

Lerhupur is a census town in Varanasi tehsil of Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The place

Lerhupur is a census town in Varanasi tehsil of Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The census town & village falls under the Ladhupur gram panchayat. Lerhupur Census town & village is about 8 kilometers North-West of Varanasi railway station, 305 kilometers South-East of Lucknow and 17 kilometers North-West of Banaras Hindu University.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lerhupur

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
    Gyanvapi Mosque

    The Gyanvapi Mosque is a mosque located in Varanasi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The site was originally an ancient Hindu temple of Shiva or "Kashi Vishveshwara", one of the twelve sacred Jyotirlingas.

    6 km · Mosque in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sarnath Museum

    Sarnath Museum, or Archaeological Museum Sarnath, is the oldest site museum of the Archaeological Survey of India. It houses the findings and excavations at the archaeological site of Sarnath, by the Archaeological Survey of India.

    3 km · archaeological museum in Saranath · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Alamgir Mosque

    The Alamgir Mosque, also known as the Aurangzeb's Mosque, is a mosque in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The mosque is located at a prominent site above the Panchaganga Ghat.

    5.2 km · mosque in Varanasi, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Manikarnika Ghat

    Manikarnika Ghat is one of the oldest and sacred ghats on the banks of the River Ganges, in the city of Varanasi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is included in the 84 ghats of Varanasi.

    5.8 km · Hindu shrine and open crematorium · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sampurnanand Sanskrit University

    Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya is an Indian university and institution of higher learning located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. It is one of the largest Sanskrit universities in the world.

    5.2 km · state public university in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Lalita Ghat

    Lalita Ghat is one of the main ghats on the Ganges River in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The ghat is named after Hindu Goddess Lalita and was built in early 19th century by King of Nepal, Rana Bahadur Shah.

    6 km · historic site in Varanasi · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ratneshwar Mahadev temple

    Ratneshwar Mahadev Mandir is one of the most photographed Hindu temples in the holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, India. The temple, while apparently well-preserved, leans significantly towards the back side, and its garbhagriha is generally below the water much of the year, except for a few months during the summer.

    5.7 km · temple in India · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Buddha Preaching his First Sermon

    The Buddha Preaching his First Sermon is a stone sculpture of the 5th-century CE showing Gautama Buddha in the "teaching posture" or dharmachakra pravartana mudrā. The relief is 160 cm tall, and was excavated at Sarnath, India by F. O. Oertel during the 1904–1905 excavation season of the Archaeological Survey of India; it was found in an area to the south of the Dhamek Stupa.

    3.2 km · 5th-century sculpture from Sarnath, India · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies

    The Central University for Tibetan Studies, formerly called the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, is a Deemed University founded in Sarnath, Varanasi, India, in 1967. It is an autonomous university under India's Ministry of Culture.

    2.1 km · deemed university in Varanasi, India · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Jamia-e-Imania

    Jamia-e-Imania or the Imania Arabic College is a Madrasa in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Its full name is Majma-ul-Uloom, Jamia-e-Imania.

    4.3 km · Arabic college in Varanasi, India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lerhupur

Airports
Lal Bahadur Shastri (VNS), 21 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 242 km · Chaudhary Charan Singh (LKO), 265 km
Stations
Varanasi City railway station, 3.7 km · Kashi Railway station, 3.6 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lerhupur

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 Lerhupur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inLocal bus No107E departs from near Varanasi Cantt train station (coordinates: 25°19.74981'N, 82°59.36062'E), and costs ₹25 (2023) to Sarnath The town is easily reached by taxi or auto rickshaw from Varanasi.
  • Get inYou can negotiate a better rate with an autorickshaw driver, outside the station.
  • Get inIf you have tons of luggage though, go with the taxi -- it won't fit in the rickshaw.

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

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Around it

Next door to Lerhupur

Lerhupur is 5 km from Varanasi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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