Amroha

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Amroha is a town in northwestern Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, the administrative headquarters of Jyotiba Phule Nagar District. It is located west-northwest of Moradabad town, on the Sot River.

The town was conquered by Syed Sharfuddin Shah Wilayat, who migrated from Wasti, Iraq to India. The name of Amroha is usually seen as deriving from its produce of mangoes (aam) and fish (rohu fish). Amroha is a marketplace for agricultural produce, its main industries are pottery making, hand-loom weaving, and sugar milling. Colleges affiliated to MJP Rohilkhand University are also located there. Amroha is connected by rail with Moradabad and Delhi.

People from Amroha often use the surname Amrohvi. Many intellectual and talented people have originated from Amroha, for example: Hujjatul Islam Maulana Syed Mohammad Ibadat Naqvi, Maulana Syed Aulad Hasan Naqvi (who laid the foundation of the first Shia mosque of Amroha that is Ashraful Masjid at Mohalla Shafaat Pota), Syed Mehdi Raza Taqvi (who built Azakhana Wazeer Un Nisa or Bara Imambara - Danishmandan Picture& Detail), Rais Amrohvi, Qaem Amrohvi, Kamal Amrohvi, Maulana Sarwar Hussain, Maulana Syed Najmul Hasan aka Najmul Millat, Maulana Syed Hamidul Hasan, Maulana Syed Mohammad Shakir Naqvi Amrohvi, Maulana Syed Zafar Hasan Naqvi, Nazar Amrohvi, and the renowned painter Sadequain. The famous Urdu poet Jaun Elia also belonged to Amroha.