Places to visit in Delhi
62 places to visit in Delhi, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Humayun's Tomb, Qutub Minar, Red Fort and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Delhi volume.
3 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 18 National monuments · 23 Famous places to visit · 18 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Delhi (3)
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Humayun's Tomb
The first great Mughal garden tomb in India, and the rehearsal for everything the dynasty built afterwards, the Taj included.
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Qutub Minar
Seventy-three metres of carved sandstone begun in 1193, still the tallest brick minaret anywhere.
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Red Fort
The seat of Mughal power for two centuries, and the wall India's independence is announced from every August.
National monuments in Delhi (18)
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Adham Khan's Tomb
The Bhool Bhulaiyaa on the Mehrauli road.
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Agrasen ki Baoli
A hundred and eight steps descending into cool dark stone in the middle of Connaught Place, and nobody is certain who built it.
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Barakhamba
A Tughlaq tomb in Delhi whose name simply counts its pillars, twelve of them.
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Feroz Shah Kotla
Ashokan pillar on a ruined citadel, and Thursday petitions to the djinns.
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Hauz Khas Complex
A royal reservoir, a madrasa and a tomb around a lake dug in the thirteenth century to water a new city.
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Jantar Mantar
Thirteen masonry instruments built to measure time and track the stars, accurate to within seconds without a single lens.
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Khair-ul-Manzil
A mosque and madrasa opposite the Purana Qila built by Akbar's wet nurse, and where he was nearly assassinated.
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Khirki Masjid
A fourteenth century mosque with a roof over most of it and latticed windows for the name.
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Moth ki Masjid
A Lodi mosque a minister built from the proceeds of one grain of lentil the sultan gave him.
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Nizamuddin Dargah
The shrine of a Sufi saint who died in 1325, where qawwali has been sung every Thursday evening since.
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Purana Qila
Sher Shah Suri's fort on ground that has been continuously occupied for two and a half thousand years.
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Qila-i-Kuhna Mosque
Sher Shah's mosque inside the Purana Qila, five arches in marble and red sandstone.
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Rajon ki Baoli
A Lodi period stepwell in Mehrauli, named for the masons who later lived in it rather than for a king.
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Safdarjung's Tomb
The last of the Mughal garden tombs, built when the empire was running out of money and marble, and honest about it.
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Salimgarh Fort
Built in 1546 by Sher Shah Suri's son, on what was then an island in the Yamuna.
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Siri Fort
The second city of Delhi, built by Alauddin Khalji against the Mongols, now a wall and an auditorium.
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Sultan Ghari
The first Islamic tomb built in India, raised in 1233 for Iltutmish's eldest son.
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Tughlaqabad Fort
A vast ruined city abandoned within fifteen years of being finished, said to be under a saint's curse.
Famous places to visit in Delhi (23)
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Akshardham
A stone temple raised in 2005 without steel, carved by seven thousand craftsmen in the old way.
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Chandni Chowk
A market laid out in the seventeenth century by Shah Jahan's daughter, still selling silver, spices and wedding cloth.
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Chhatarpur Temple
Marble on a scale that has to be seen.
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Connaught Place
Two Georgian circles that still run the city's idea of itself.
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Gandhi Smriti
The last hundred and forty four days, and the last steps.
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Gurudwara Bangla Sahib
The tank, the langar, and the queue that never stops.
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India Gate
A war memorial to the Indian soldiers who died in the First World War, with more than thirteen thousand names cut into its stone.
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Indian Air Force Museum Palam
The Indian Air Force's own museum at Palam, open since 1967.
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Jama Masjid
Shah Jahan's last great commission, a courtyard that holds twenty five thousand people and a view over the old city.
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Kalkaji Mandir
Older than the city around it, by every account.
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Laxminarayan Temple
The Birla temple of 1939, opened by Gandhi on the condition that it would admit everyone.
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Lodhi Gardens
Fifteenth century tombs standing in ninety acres of park, where Delhi comes to walk among its own dead kings.
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Lotus Temple
A Bahai house of worship shaped as twenty seven marble petals, open to every faith and to none.
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National Gallery of Modern Art
Jaipur House in New Delhi, holding more than seventeen thousand works of modern Indian art.
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National Museum
The dancing girl of Mohenjo daro is here.
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National Zoological Park Delhi
A hundred and seventy six acres of zoo in the middle of New Delhi.
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Old Delhi
Shahjahanabad, the walled capital Shah Jahan built in 1648, which Delhi never stopped living in.
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Qila Rai Pithora
Lal Kot, the earliest of Delhi's cities, whose walls still run through the ground around the Qutb.
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Raisina Hill
The low rise Lutyens put the seat of government on, and the address the phrase now means.
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Raj Ghat
A black marble platform on the bank of the Yamuna marking where Gandhi was cremated in 1948.
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Rashtrapati Bhavan
Lutyens' viceregal palace, larger than Versailles, now the residence of the President of India.
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Signature Bridge
Delhi's tallest structure is the pylon of this bridge, leaning out over the Yamuna at Wazirabad.
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Teen Murti Bhavan
Nehru's residence as prime minister, now his museum and a library.
Hidden gems in Delhi (18)
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Chittaranjan Park Kali Mandir
The Bengali colony's temple in Delhi, and where the city's biggest Durga Puja is held.
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Coronation Park
Where the Durbar was held and the statues were sent.
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Dilli Haat
A permanent craft market where stalls rotate between states every fortnight, opened in 1994.
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Fatehpuri Masjid
The mosque at the far end of Chandni Chowk from the Red Fort, built by one of Shah Jahan's wives.
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Ghalib ki Haveli
The poet's house in Ballimaran, a doorway and two rooms, saved after long being a coal store.
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Khan Market
Refugee shops that became the most expensive rent in India.
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Masjid Mubarak Begum
A mosque built in 1823 by a courtesan who became a Resident's wife, and Delhi called it the whore's mosque.
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Mehrauli Archaeological Park
A hundred monuments spanning a thousand years in one wooded park, most of them unlabelled and unvisited.
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National Rail Museum
The Fairy Queen, and a train that runs around the grounds.
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Nigambodh Ghat
The oldest cremation ground on the Yamuna.
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Old Yamuna Bridge
Lohe ka Pul, built across the Yamuna between 1863 and 1866, and carrying trains still.
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Sacred Heart Cathedral
The Catholic cathedral of 1930 on Ashoka Place, Italianate and startlingly white.
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Sanskriti Kendra
Terracotta and everyday art in a garden south of the city.
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Sarojini Nagar Market
Export surplus, sold by the kilo of patience.
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St James' Church, Delhi
Built by James Skinner of the yellow-coated horse, in thanks for surviving a battlefield.
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Sunder Nursery
Ninety acres of Mughal tombs turned into a park.
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Zafar Mahal
The last Mughal palace, and the grave that was never filled.
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Zeenat-ul-Masajid
Aurangzeb's daughter's mosque at Daryaganj, with striped marble domes, called the ghost mosque.
Collecting in Delhi
What are the best places to visit in Delhi?
LOQAH lists 62 places in Delhi. The best known include Humayun's Tomb, Qutub Minar, Red Fort, Adham Khan's Tomb and Agrasen ki Baoli. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Delhi?
62, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Delhi?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Delhi before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Delhi and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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