Chowmahalla Palace

Chowmahalla Palace or Chowmahallat is the palace of the Nizams of Hyderabad State located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was the seat of power of the Asaf Jahi dynasty (1720-1948) and was the official residence of the Nizams during their reign. The palace has been converted into a museum and the ownership still lies with the family.

The palace was constructed at the location of an earlier palace of the Qutb Shahi dynasty and Asaf Jahi dynasty close to the Charminar. Construction of the palace, as it stands today, was started by Nizam Ali Khan Asaf Jah II in 1769. He ordered the building of four palaces from which the nomenclature of Chau Mahalla is derived. The word chār or chahār, and its variation chow, means "four" and the word mahal means "palace" in Urdu, Hindi and Persian.

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Chowmahalla Palace staat op plaats 812 van 5.793 in de bekendheidsranglijst van deze atlas en op plaats 40 van de 156 die de atlas in India in kaart brengt. Gebouwd in 1880, en daarmee ouder dan 6% van de gedateerde bouwwerken in de atlas — een van de 407 bouwwerken in de atlas die uit de 19e eeuw stammen. Zie hoe dat zich verhoudt in de kastelenstatistiek.

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