Hayathnagar is a busy residential locality of

Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

Ranga Reddy district Ranga Reddy district is a district in the Indian state of Telangana. The district headquarters is located at Kongara Kalan Village, Ibrahimpatnam Mandal. The district was named after the former deputy chief minister of the United Andhra Prade ...

of the

Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 subnational entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into 800 districts and smaller administrative divisions by the respe ...

Telangana Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...

. It is

mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative c ...

headquarter of Hayathnagar mandal of Hayathnagar

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. Hayathnagar forms circle No 3 in

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is the civic body that oversees Hyderabad, the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It is the local government for the city of Hyderabad. It is one of the largest munici ...

. There are four wards – Nagole (11) Mansoorabad (12), Hayathnagar (13) and B. N. Reddy Nagar (14) – in this circle. It lies on

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History

In 1620, then ruler of Golconda,

Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah (also transliterated in different ways) was the sixth ruler of the kingdom of Golconda in southern India under the Qutb Shahi dynasty. He ruled from 11 January 1612 until his death on 9 February 1626. He was the neph ...

, decided to move his capital away from Golconda and Hyderabad. He selected a site about east of then Hyderabad, in what is today Saroornagar. The fort was named after himself and called

Sultan Nagar Fort Sultan Nagar Fort, also known as ''Qila-yi Kohna'' (the Old Fort), are the ruined remains of an abandoned Qutb shahi, Qutb Shah era fort whose construction had started around 1620. The fort is located at a place now known as L. B. Nagar in Hyde ...

. The construction of this fort was abandoned by his wife

Hayat Bakshi Begum Hayat Bakshi Begum (died 26 February, 1667) was the royal consort of Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah, the sixth ruler of the Qutb Shai Dynasty in south India and daughter of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, fifth Sultan of the dynasty. When her son Abdulla ...

who considered his sudden death in 1625 a bad omen. Later a new settlement known as Hayathnagar was established further east by the Begum. The

Hayat Bakshi Mosque The Hayat Bakshi Mosque also Hayat Bakshi Begum Masjid is a mosque located in Hayathnagar, near Hyderabad, in the Hyderabad district of the state of Telangana, India. It was constructed in 1672 during the reign of Abdullah Qutb Shah the fifth ...

, located here, was commissioned by Begum Hayat Bakshi. There is a Sai Baba Temple in Hayathnagar.

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Neighbourhoods in Hyderabad, India Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Municipal wards of Hyderabad, India {{Rangareddi-geo-stub

History

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