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Qissa Khawani Bazar

Khyber PakhtunkhwaBuildingProtected
Peshawar is a city of historic romance and its two thousand years story is full of old traditions and tales that are told and retold in the Kahve-Khana of the famous Qissa Khwani Bazaar, translated as Story-tellers Bazaar. This is the Piccadilly of Central Asia and the fame of the Qissa Khani or Story-Tellers Bazaar, known throughout the length of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Afghanistan and far even beyond. According to Gopal Das, this open Bazaar was originally built by Avitabile. It is mentioned neither by Elphinstone nor by Mohan Lal, who have described the other bazaars.
Record ID
4568
Province / territory
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District
Peshawar
Typology
Monument
Subtype
Building
Period
Historic
Legal status
Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
Coordinates
34.00770, 71.57040 — source-provided, not field-verified
Verification status
source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
Sources
Dani, Ahmed Hassan. (1995). Peshawar: Historic City of the Frontier. Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore.

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