Qutb Shahi · Civic building
Purana Pul
also Old Bridge
Qutb ShahiCivic buildingState protected
The first bridge over the Musi, a run of 22 masonry arches built by Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah to link Golconda with the growing settlement that became Hyderabad. Recorded on Mapping HYD as a qutb-shahi civic site in Purana Pul, with protection status marked state-protected.
- Purana Pul is a documented qutb-shahi civic in Purana Pul.
- Marks the shift from court city to administrative metropolis
- Still readable in today’s streetscape and public use
- Associated construction or major phase dated around 1578.
- Current mapped status: state-protected.
- Built
- 1578
- Access
- Open access
- Area
- Purana Pul
- Location
- 17.3706, 78.4585
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