Ajmer

👥 620K population 790y Dargah Sharif 500K pilgrims at Urs

Rajasthan's great Sufi city gathers around the marble Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, where qawwali music and rose petals draw pilgrims of every faith. Lakeside pavilions sit below, and Pushkar waits just over the hill.

Highlights

Ana Sagar LakeA peaceful lakeside retreat

Dargah Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin ChishtiAjmer Sharif, the sacred shrine

Dargah BazaarSouvenirs and sacred shopping

What to see 23

Ana Sagar LakeA peaceful lakeside retreatDetails →

Taragarh FortAjmer's widest view, and a fort left to time rather than handed to restorersDetails →

Victoria Jubilee Clock TowerThe first thing you see off the train, and the marker of Ajmer's railway centuryDetails →

Prithviraj SmarakAjmer's easiest viewpoint: twenty minutes, no climb, the whole city underneathDetails →

Adhai Din Ka JhonpraTen minutes above the Dargah and almost empty, the earliest mosque architecture in IndiaDetails →

Chudi BazarA whole lane of bangles in colour order, sized to your wrist while you waitDetails →

Nala BazarFixed-price shops and haggling stalls on one street, from crafts to Nagra slippersDetails →

Naya BazarWhere the city itself shops: silver, woodwork and the attar counters behind the rose tradeDetails →

Purani MandiCloth by the metre a few lanes from the Dargah, where the city buys its sarisDetails →

Dargah Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin ChishtiAjmer Sharif, the sacred shrine

Dargah BazaarSouvenirs and sacred shopping

Mayo CollegeThe building that set the Indo-Saracenic template, inside only by prior permission

Ana Sagar BaradariAjmer's best hour happens here at dawn: low sun on marble, birds over the lake

Government Museum Ajmer (Akbar's Palace & Magazine)The hall where Mughal India first received an English envoy, a museum since 1908

Nareli Jain Temple (Shri Gyanodaya Tirth Kshetra)Twenty-four hillside shrines rising behind a marble temple, with the Aravallis behind them

Soniji Ki Nasiyan (Swarna Nagari, the City of Gold)A gold model of the Jain cosmos, decades in the making and little known outside Rajasthan

Chilla Khwaja SahibWhere the Chishti story in India begins, busy at the Urs, and nearly empty otherwise

Dargah of Miran Syed Hussain (Miran Saheb, Taragarh)The reason Ajmer families climb Taragarh: a hilltop shrine domed after Mashhad

Ajaypal Ji Temple, AjaysarAjmer's own hill walk: a spring-fed Shiva shrine that runs green after the monsoon

Foy Sagar Lake (Varun Sagar)The city's own evening lake: hills all round, birds on the water, and the sunset

Daulat Bagh (Subhash Udyan)A Mughal garden turned city promenade, and a real wetland before the crowds arrive

Maharana Pratap Smarak & Nag Pahar RidgeA three-kilometre climb that ends with both Ajmer and Pushkar in view at once

Madar Gate MarketAjmer's silver address, plus bandhani and embroidered shoes, inside an old city gate

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