While exploring Karachi I passed through the road, near famous shopping district of Tariq Road, leading towards an iconic roundabout (known as chowrangi locally) and my favourite chowrangi in Karachi. This is Charminar Roundabout, also known as Charminar Chowrangi Bahadurabad, built in 2007.
For many Karachiites, this is just a roundabout on the road and they just pass-by without noticing how elegant and famous this structure is.
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An interesting fact is that this roundabout is an award winning roundabout from Pakistan. This roundabout from Karachi, the financial capital of Pakistan has been featured in a list of the world’s most beautiful roundabouts by a UK based Roundabout Appreciation Society and ranked 6th in the list of 12 roundabouts from all over the world in 2015.
Recommended read: Know the other 11 roundabouts in the list
Charminar Chowrangi monument is a mosque replica of charminar in India’s stunning city Hyderabad (not to confuse with Hyderabad in Sindh, Paksitan). In Hyderabad Charminar is a mosque constructed in 1591 and is one of the most renowned structures in India. This mosque was included in the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Recommended Read: Wikipedia article on Charminar in Hyderabad
This roundabout is called charminar like the one in Hyderabad. Both of them are a mosque with four minarets. That’s how this roundabout got its name. Charminar literally means four minarets or four pillars in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan and my mother tongue.
Charminar Roundabout is located in famous shopping district in Karachi. Google map location of Charminar
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