Bahawalpur Central Library سنٹرل لائبریری بھاولپور | |
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29°23′28″N 71°41′06″E / 29.391016°N 71.684933°E | |
Location | Bahawalpur, Pakistan |
Type | Academic library |
Established | 1924 |
The Bahawalpur Central Library ( Urdu: سنٹرل لائبریری بھاولپور), also known as Sadiq Reading Library, is a library in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded on 8 March 1924 by Sir Rufus Daniel Issacs during the coronation year of Sadeq Mohammad Khan V. [1] [2] [3] It cost 100,000 rupees by Bahawalpur State and is the second largest library in the province of Punjab. [1] [2]
The library is one of the buildings built by the Nawabs that was designed in a hybrid Neo-Gothic-Victorian style. [3] Unlike other royal buildings, arches in the library are not multi-foiled, but are instead single-foiled.
A porch wraps around some of the building, and has an octagonal tower with Jali work on its arches, and stylized Victorian scrolls at its base. [3]
The library is divided into three sections: Main Hall, children's books section and audio visual archive section. [2]
The library's collection includes older editions of newspapers. [2] It has over 100,000 books, [2] [4] and contains a repository of historic documents related to the state of Bahawalpur and Khwaja Ghulam Farid. [3]
Bahawalpur Central Library سنٹرل لائبریری بھاولپور | |
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29°23′28″N 71°41′06″E / 29.391016°N 71.684933°E | |
Location | Bahawalpur, Pakistan |
Type | Academic library |
Established | 1924 |
The Bahawalpur Central Library ( Urdu: سنٹرل لائبریری بھاولپور), also known as Sadiq Reading Library, is a library in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded on 8 March 1924 by Sir Rufus Daniel Issacs during the coronation year of Sadeq Mohammad Khan V. [1] [2] [3] It cost 100,000 rupees by Bahawalpur State and is the second largest library in the province of Punjab. [1] [2]
The library is one of the buildings built by the Nawabs that was designed in a hybrid Neo-Gothic-Victorian style. [3] Unlike other royal buildings, arches in the library are not multi-foiled, but are instead single-foiled.
A porch wraps around some of the building, and has an octagonal tower with Jali work on its arches, and stylized Victorian scrolls at its base. [3]
The library is divided into three sections: Main Hall, children's books section and audio visual archive section. [2]
The library's collection includes older editions of newspapers. [2] It has over 100,000 books, [2] [4] and contains a repository of historic documents related to the state of Bahawalpur and Khwaja Ghulam Farid. [3]