Clickwalk: Click walk @ Kashmere Gate

A small early walk to Kashmere Gate gives you an opportunity to see many good monuments in peace with very little traffic. You can enjoy the monuments of Britisher's first residential estates in Delhi at Kashmere Gate. Most of these monuments have a nice story to tell...though we were not with any historian who could have guided us or updated with the stories but still we managed to get some info. with jugggar and one friend Riddhish who has been there earlier.

Let me tell about the places to visit around Kashmere gate and while I talk about those places, I will mention briefly the importance of these places in our history.

The best way to reach Kashmere Gate is by Metro. Get down at Kashmere gate station, come out at gate no.4 and next to it the first destination to visit:

1. Nicholson Cemetery: Take right from gate no.4 and in just few steps you will be at Nicholson Cemetery. This is a place where you will get to see some of the amazingly carved gravestones and memorials. This place is named after the British General John Nicholson who died fighting with Indian soldiers in 1857 uprising. You can see his grave on right side after entering the Cemetery.

To be honest this is one place where I have seen so many nicely carved and decorated gravestones some of them were so beautiful but I couldn't capture them as the Cemetery is not well kept and have overgrown grass all around but nevertheless I loved the place.

Grave of Brig. Gen. John Nicholson

Nicholson Cemetery

2. Kashmere Gate: Few meters away from the Nicholson Cemetery is this Kashmere gate which is named so as not only a road which lead to Kashmir from the walled city of Delhi but it was also facing Kashmir. No more you get to see the the huge monument of Kashmere gate which it used to be earlier. It was built by the Britishers and became famous as the key battle of the Mutiny of 1857 .

Kashmere Gate Monument, Delhi, India

3. Kashmere Gate market Walk: From Kashmere gate take left and walk pass the Kashmere gate market which is a busy market in the day but we were Click walking here early morning still we could capture some good and colorful photographs. While passing through the market you will come across The Fakhr-ul- Masjid, old Hindu college and St. Stephen college building.

Food Hawker @ Kashmere Gate market, Old Delhi, India

Kashmere Gate market, Old Delhi, India

Kashmere Gate market, Old Delhi market, India

Road side barber @ Kashmere Gate market, Old Delhi, India

Kashmere Gate market, Old Delhi, India

4. St. James Church: Just opposite to St. Stephens college is St. James Church, one of the oldest churches in Delhi was built in 1836 by Colonel James Skinner. It's a beautifully designed Church with stained glass windows and a central octagonal dome. Behind the church is the bungalow of British Commissioners of Delhi, William Frazer, who is also buried in the church graveyard. St. James Church, Kashmere Gate, Old Delhi, India

St. James Church @ Kashmere Gate market, Old Delhi, India

There is lot more to see around, unfortunately we couldn't do a Click walk to these but I will surely list them down for others to know and will share my experience and photographs whenever I visit these places next. Don't miss visiting Dara Shikoh’s Library in I P University Campus, Telegraph Memorial and British Magazine a storehouse where Britishers use to store weapons and ammunition.