Nizam-era Civic · Civic building
State Central Library
also Asafia Library
Nizam-era CivicCivic buildingState protected
Founded as the Asafia Library, holding rare Arabic, Persian and Urdu manuscripts. The Indo-Saracenic building faces the Musi near the Afzal Gunj bridge. Recorded on Mapping HYD as a nizam-civic civic site in Afzalgunj, with protection status marked state-protected.
- State Central Library is a documented nizam-civic civic in Afzalgunj.
- 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 1891 (present building 1936).
- Current mapped status: state-protected.
- Built
- 1891 (present building 1936)
- Access
- Open access
- Area
- Afzalgunj
- Location
- 17.3728, 78.4796
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