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English: Popularly known as the Chhota Imambara, the Imambara of Hussainabad in the old city is one of the most beautiful and attractive buildings. This Imambara was built by Mohammed Ali Shah in the second year of his rule in 1839. Mohammed Ali Shah must have built this Imambara as a token of allegiance to his faith and as gratitude for the lucky windfall, that he never expected at the fag end of his life, when he was 63 years old and infirm, to be chosen by the British and crowned as the third King of Oudh (Awadh), of which he wasn't even a claimant. Azim-ullah Khan was the superintendant of the ordinance and building department of the King and supervised the buiiding of the Hussainabad Imambara. [His contribution as such is recorded in the two Persian inscriptions placed on the pillars of the main Tripolia gateway].
The glittering gold-plated large and smaller domes of the imambara which are radially ribbed can be seen from a distance and attract people from far off. There are two Tripolia (triple arched) gateways on the east and west as entrance to the complex. In-between them is the main phatak, a large gate with a heavy door that leads to the main compound in which the main hall and other apartments of the Imambara are housed with two other independent structures. One finds panja emblems mounted atop the main gate to signify the holy five of the Prophet Mohammed's family of which his grandson Hussain was the youngest. Opposite the main gate is the Naubat Khana [also known as Jilo Khana), where large drums were beaten to announce the naubat i.e. the hour of the day. On its balcony, drummers played the nagada (small drums) to inform of the impending majlis (mourning assembly) or such other religious functions [or the visit of a dignitary].
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