Visit the Beautiful City of Bhopal in the State of Madhya Pradesh, India

The State of Madhya Pradesh is full of most beautiful cities that need to be visited by the tourists to see the ancient historical buildings, palaces, hill stations, lakes and the forts. Bhopal is one such large city of Madhya Pradesh. It has lot of tourist value in spite of it being very big and full of industries. Bhopal is a city established in the middle of the lakes. Originally, this city was established by king Bhoj and was named as Bhojpur. Subsequently, this ancient city disappeared and the present city of Bhopal was constructed at the same place. This present city of Bhopal was established by Dost Mohammad, the friend of Mogul King Aurangzeb, who ran away from Delhi after the death of Aurangzeb. He met queen Kamalarani, who also was alone in life, married her and established this present town of Bhopal. Bhopal is a mixture of both old and the new town cultures.

Bhopal is very well connected by train, air and road from all the major cities of India. The nearest airport is around 6 miles away and there are daily regular flights available from Delhi and Mumbai. It is also connected by train from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. There are regular bus services for Bhopal from all the major cities of North India. Bhopal is 110 miles away from Ujjain, 108 miles from Indore, 250 miles from Gwaliar, and 120 miles from Panchmarhi. There are many sites seeing spots here. The Taj Ul Mosque is the most important of all. This mosque is the biggest mosque of entire Asia. This mosque was built by the eighth ruler of Bhopal, Shahjahan Begum, but could not complete it in her life time. Subsequently, it was completed in the year 1914 and has been the center of attraction for all the visitors. The three day urs is held here every year and thousands of pilgrims visit this spot at that time. The Jama Mosque, built by queen Kudesia is also worth seeing here. Its top is made of solid gold. The Moti Mosque is the next spot. This mosque was built by Sikandar Jha, the daughter of queen Kudesia in the year 1860. Its architecture is exactly similar to the Juma mosque of Delhi.