Historical Monuments / Forts / Palaces / Places to Visit in Akola

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Akola Fort is designed by and renounced architect of its time known as Khawja Abdul lathif. He completed this construction work in the year 1698 AD. This fort was a bastion fort for the Akola province and helped in times of crises. Initially this was built with mud blocks in this village by Asad Khan, who was one of the ministers in the Mughal Empire under the King Arungzabe. The construction materials used her are large granite stone blocks, lime stones, mud blocks, clay bricks, woods, irons and mortars.

Balapur Fort is built in the Indo Islamic architectural designs. This fortress is well located in between two rivers junctions known as the Man River adjoining in parallel with the Bhains River. It is built on a small elevated area to avoid river floods. The purpose of this fort was to be used as garrison in the times war like situations and to safe guard this province. Since the Mughals built this fort and it has all essence of its Islamic designs of arts in this structure.

Narnala Fort is a built on the Indian and the Sultanate architectural model. This fort is constructed with granite stones, white and yellow and stone. These are bonded with lime stones very beautifully. This fort has a unique craftsmanship on the stone works. These are well carved on single stones. The entire fort area on this hilltop land is about 1.46 square kilometers. This has an altitude of 970 meters in height. This is fortified with very large stone blocks and has 67 bastions in cylindrical shape.