Bhadra Fort

Entrance gate to the fort

The Bhadra Fort is located in the area of ​​the ancient city walls of Ahmedabad , Gujarat, India . Ahmad Shah I . had it built in 1411. With its ornate royal palaces, mosques, gates and open spaces, it was renovated as a cultural monument for the city in 2014 by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) organizations .

etymology

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It is believed that the fort took the name Bhadra from a temple of Bhadra Kali, a form of Lakshmi that was built during the Maratha reign. However, a plaque near the fort tells a different story: The Bhadra Gate - CAD 1411 - The massive fortified gate was built in or around 1411 to serve as the main entrance to the palace that was built here by Sultan Ahmad Shah I (1411 –1442), the founder of Ahmedabad. The palace named the Bhadra after the ancient Rajput citadel of that name in Anhilwada-Patan (Baroda State), which held the first three kings of the Gujarat sultans dynasty before Ahmedabad became the capital. Three labeled ceilings on the walls that connect this gate with two secondary gates behind it are now almost completely defaced. One of them seems to show a date from the time of Jahangir (1605–1627).