Deccan Heritage Map

Our vision

Hyderabad has five centuries of layered built history—Qutb Shahi citadels, Mughal-era mosques, Asaf Jahi palaces, and Nizam-era civic buildings—but most of it sits outside the popular tourist circuit and is slowly disappearing. We believe that making this heritage legible, browsable, and physically reachable is a prerequisite to saving it.

The Deccan Heritage Map turns the standard tourist-map model on its head: instead of recommending a handful of headline sites, it plots every protected monument, every at-risk building, and every forgotten stepwell on a single map you can filter by era, protection status, or walking distance. The goal is for anyone—a visitor with an hour, a local walker, or a researcher—to discover the city’s fabric rather than just its landmarks.

We open-source the data, surface unverified records clearly, and invite corrections. Every entry is a living document, not a finished fact.

Explore the map

The full map is at heritage.mapmyhyd.com. A few places to start:

• Golconda Fort
• Charminar
• Qutb Shahi Tombs
• Chowmahalla Palace
• Falaknuma Palace
• Mecca Masjid
• British Residency
• Salar Jung Museum

Or browse all heritage weekend getaways within 200 km of Hyderabad.

Directory of Built Heritage (85 Monuments)

Explore dedicated history, photos, walking routes, and architectural records for every protected monument, stepwell, and palace in Hyderabad:

Where the data comes from

• Site records: ASI and Telangana state protected lists, INTACH’s Hyderabad listing, and OpenStreetMap.
• Descriptions and dates: Wikipedia and Wikidata, cited on each site.
• Photographs: Wikimedia Commons, used only where the licence permits and always credited.
• Walking routes: the public OSRM foot router, over OpenStreetMap footpaths.
• Basemap: plain OpenStreetMap. No Google Maps, Mapbox, or keyed map service.

Curator Credits & Community Collections

Special thanks to Karthik Vatsavayi for compiling and sharing the curated collection “(Lesser Known) Historic Sites of Hyderabad” ↗. His meticulous fieldwork brought 37 rare, overlooked monuments—including 2,300-year-old Iron Age cairns, the 1417 CE Telunganaapura inscription, pre-Charminar Qutb Shahi tombs, and 200-year-old stepwells—onto this map.

We also thank the Hyderabad heritage community on r/hyderabad for photographic documentation of the restored Gachibowli stepwell and rich discussions on city toponymy.

Corrections

Many records are marked unverified. If a date, location, or status is wrong—or a building is missing—use the “Suggest” tab on the map. An editor reviews every submission.