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High Court of Telangana
Also known as: Osmania High Court
Vincent Esch's riverfront masterpiece for the seventh Nizam: pink granite and local pink sandstone, Mughal domes on a modern plan, on the site of an older Qutb Shahi palace garden.
History & Story
Esch built the High Court on the site of a former Qutb Shahi palace garden, using pink Vindhyan sandstone quarried in Rajasthan to give the building its warm tone. The design synthesizes Mughal domes, pointed arches, and a rational modern courthouse plan in the Osmanian idiom he invented specifically for Hyderabad. It sits directly across the Musi from City College, the two buildings framing the river as a unified civic composition, the finest stretch of planned urban architecture in Hyderabad.
Key Events
1915
Foundation stone laid on site of a Qutb Shahi palace garden
1919
Completed and inaugurated
1956
Became High Court of Andhra Pradesh
2014
Became High Court of Telangana at state formation
Key People
V
Vincent J. Esch
architect; invented the Osmanian civic style for Hyderabad
N
Nizam VII Mir Osman Ali Khan
patron
Location & Getting There
Area / Locality: Nayapul
Coordinates: 17.36920° N, 78.47200° E
Access: public