Azampura | |||
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Country | India | ||
State | Andhra Pradesh | ||
District(s) | Hyderabad | ||
Parliamentary constituency | Hyderabad | ||
Assembly constituency | Malakpet | ||
Planning Agency | GHMC | ||
Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) | ||
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Azampura is one of the old suburbs in Hyderabad, India and is close to Dabirpura. Other nearby areas include Saidabad, Chaderghat, Malakpet and Chanchalguda. There were 27,500 residents in Azampura as of 2003.[1] Like many other Old City suburbs it has a majority Muslim population.
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Azampura's commercial area is concentrated around Masjid-e-Sahifa. There are many fruit stalls and restaurants which offer Hyderabad's famous non-vegetarian cuisine like biryani, nihari and kebabs. The famous hotels Are Kababish , Firdous Hotel, Savera Hotel And Niagara Hotel.
Azampura is extremely well connected to many suburbs around Hyderabad by buses run by APSRTC, from the Mahatma Gandhi Bus Station nearby. It also has a railway station with services running between Secunderabad and Falaknuma.
Masjid-E-Sahifa is an important mosque In Azampura
Old Post Sahifa is now defunct but a major regional Post Office during the 1980s and 1990s.