Naimisharanya
Where the Puranas were first recited.
- Where
- Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 27.3512, 80.4852
Get the Naimisharanya stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Naimisharanya. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Uttar Pradesh volume with your photos and a note.
Near Naimisharanya
Chota Imambara 67 km
Built in 1838 as a mausoleum, hung with Belgian chandeliers, and lit for Muharram as it always was.
Rumi Darwaza 68 km
A sixty foot gateway of the Awadh court, built when the nawabs could no longer afford stone and worked in brick and plaster instead.
Bara Imambara 68 km
A hall built in a famine year to give work to the starving, with a roof that stands on no beams and a labyrinth above it.
Sikandar Bagh 70 km
A garden and villa where the 1857 siege ended in a massacre, now a botanical institute.
The Residency 70 km
Left in ruins on purpose, shot through with cannon fire from the 1857 siege, as a memorial to both sides.
Chattar Manzil 70 km
A Nawabi palace on the Gomti with an umbrella dome, built over a cellar cooled by the river.
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah Prani Udyan 73 km
Lucknow's zoo, seventy one acres in the middle of the city, still called Banarsi Bagh by everyone.
Ambedkar Memorial Park 74 km
Sandstone elephants, and a great deal of it.
More famous places to visit in Uttar Pradesh
Questions
Where is Naimisharanya?
Naimisharanya is in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Chota Imambara (67 km), Rumi Darwaza (68 km), Bara Imambara (68 km).
How do I get the Naimisharanya stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Naimisharanya and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Uttar Pradesh volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Naimisharanya before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Uttar Pradesh volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
Collect your first stamp.
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