Teen Darwaza - Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad shoppers Stop. Mostly flooded at the weekends. Very useful items available at very reasonable price for the good bargainers. Street markets are filled with clothings at attractive price. Worth visiting place. Can't drive through car.

Teen Darwaza is a historical gateway on the east of Bhadra Fort, Ahmedabad, India. Completed in 1415, it is associated with historical as well as legendary events. The gates are featured in the logo of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. The Teen Darwaza was an egress from Bhadra Fort to the eastward. The gateway has three arches which led into a large enclosure, forming the outer courtyard of the palace called Maidan Shah in past, with a fountain and raised terrace in the centre. The roadway in the central opening is 17 feet wide, and that of each side arch is 13 feet wide. It has highly decorated buttresses on the faces of piers between the arches. The height of the arches is twenty-five feet. The terrace on the top of the gateway was formerly roofed over. But in 1877 the gateway was repaired, and the terrace thrown open. Here the great feudatories or foreign embassies assembled before approaching the presence, and the sovereign enthroned on the terrace, mustered the troops for martial enterprises and gala-day reviews, or held court in the cool of the evening beside the splashing fountain. Now the area is congested market. It was built by Ahmad Shah I immediately after the foundation of Ahmedabad and completed in 1415. Through it, in 1459, Mahmud Begada, king for only a few months, and not fifteen years old, quiver on back and bow in hand, with only 300 horsemen, marched to disperse his rebel nobles and their 30,000 followers. Leaving the palace, the young king ordered the roads leading to it to be held by elephants, and, with the royal music playing, marched slowly along the main street. His cool bravery gave some of his faithful nobles time to join, and forming a considerable force, though small compared with the insurgents, attacked them, put them to flight, and destroyed their leaders.[citation needed] Later the newly appointed Maratha governors used to aim five arrows at one of its beams, and augur good or ill to their administration in accordance with their success in striking it. Maratha governor Chimnaji Raghunath decreed and inscribed farman on Teen Darwaza in 1812 declaring equal right to women in inheritance of ancestral property. Raghunath had appealed to Hindu and Muslims both. This plaque engraved in Devnagari script and dated 10 October 1812 reads, Let the daughter get her due share of fathers property without any hitch. So is Lord Vishwanath's command. If you defy, the Hindu will have to answer Mahadev and the Mussalman will have to explain to Allah or Rasool. Eternal lampEdit Legend Years ago, Laxmi, the Goddess of Wealth, came to the gate of the Bhadra Fort to leave the city in the night. Watchman Khwaja Siddique Kotwal stopped her and identified her. He asked her not to leave the fort until he obtained a permission from the king, Ahmad Shah. He went to the king and beheaded himself in order to keep Laxmi in the city. It resulted in the prosperity of the city. There is a tomb near Bhadra Gate of the fort dedicated to Siddique Kotwal and a temple to Bhadra Kali, representing Laxmi. A lamp in one of the niche of Teen Darwaza is burning there for more than six hundred years by a Muslim family in a dedication to the legend.

One of the best shopping place in Ahmedabad for buying A to Z items for home appliances, general shopping, marriage shopping, cloths, and many more. You should bargaining for every items which you want to buy and save more money.

Beautifully made gate as entry to Bhadra fort. The surroundings are a dense and a busy market. The gate itself does not look well maintained though has a long and rich history.

This place is not in any sense tourist attraction, hugely crowded, there are paddler shop every where, and local people every where, and you can't even thing of four wheeler here, even driving a 2 wheeler is tough challenge and require great patience. If you still want to visit go by foot, and you can see this place while going towards Zama Masjid, Ahmedabad. By the way I visited here on Monday.

Teen Darwaza is one amongst the oldest market place located near Bhadrakali Temple. Various food items, clothes, artificial jewellery and house hold items are sold here.

Teen darwaza is part of old Ahmedabad I can say where you can buy all the stuff like clothing, cutlery, shoes, belt, household items, plastics, bags, street food and much more like a to z , top to bottom, you can find all the necessary things here at reasonable price and yes if you are planning to go there bring your own bag and cash because some people with small business are there not using codes for transaction. TIP- you have to be very good at bargaining ?( bhav tol ana chahiye). Take care of your stuff. If you are bringing your vehicle then please park where parking is available and make sure while driving that it's not one way?. Otherwise memo ? ayega Ghar par (Aj hamara a gaya? because we don't have any idea about it, so it's my personal advice to everyone). At teen darwaza you can find beautiful jwellery like rajputana jwellery (bandhi , chuda n all).. I just love all that stuff. And please take care in this pandemic situation. Wear mask and senitize your hands.

An amazing place for shopping. Women's must visit place. You will get everything here: Clothing, hair accessories, bags, footwear, cosmetics, jewellery, plastic bottles, cutlery etc Best part is jewellery just starting at 250/- Just a bit crowded on weekend so would suggest you to go on weekdays most probably on Monday. Do bargaining for reasonable rates. And the Teen darwaza is a masterpiece.