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| name = Safed Baradari
| native_name = '''{{lang|hi|सफ़ेद बारादरी}}'''<br>'''{{lang|ur|سفید بارادری}}'''
| alternate_names = Qaiser Bagh Baradari
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| owner =British India Association of Oudh
| location = Qaisar Bagh
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| location_town = [[Lucknow]]
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The '''Safed Baradari''' ({{langx|hi|सफ़ेद बारादरी}}, {{langx|ur|سفید بارادری}}) (literally 'white palace'), is a white marbled building in [[Lucknow]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.google.com/maps?saddr=Kalidas+Marg&daddr=Vikramaditya+Marg&hl=en&ll=26.852159,80.932192&spn=0.003594,0.005681&sll=26.837168,80.955999&sspn=0.014379,0.022724&geocode=FRCSmQEdOzvTBA;FTRtmQEdv1nTBA&t=h&mra=dme&mrsp=0&sz=16&z=18 | title=Overview of Safed Baradari | work=maps.google.com | access-date=18 October 2013}}</ref> [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]].

==History==
It was built by Raja Arjun Singh Banarasi at the behest of [[Nawab]] [[Wajid Ali Shah]] as a 'palace of mourning' and was named Qasr-ul-Aza.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Raja Arjun Singh Banarasi |url=https://www.quora.com/Who-was-Raja-Arjun-Singh-Banarasi}}</ref> Initial purpose of this building was to be used as an [[Imambara]] for observing 'azadaari' (mourning) for the martyrdom of [[Imam Hussain]] and his followers at [[Karbala]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Safed Baradari|url=http://lucknow.me/Safed-Baradari.html|work=Lucknow.me|accessdate=18 October 2013}}</ref>

After the annexation of Awadh in 1856, the Baradari was used by the [[United Kingdom|British]] to hold court for petitions and claims by the officers and nobles of the deposed King's reign and his relatives. Later (around 1923) it was handed over, as a gesture of appreciation for their submission and loyalty to the Queen of the British Empire, to the Taluqadars of [[Awadh]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Hasan|first=Amir|title=Vanishing culture of Lucknow|year=1990|publisher=B.R. Pub. Corp.|location=Delhi|isbn=8170185734|page=53|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kytvAAAAMAAJ&q=Safed+Baradari}}</ref> for their 'Anjuman' (association) which was renamed as the British India Association of Oudh. The Baradari continues to be in their possession and control.

==Interior==
The main hall of the Baradari has two marble statues of the Maharajas, Man Singh and Digvijay Singh of Balrampur, the founders of the association.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Safed Baradari|url=http://lucknow.me/Safed-Baradari.html|work=Lucknow.me|accessdate=18 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Palace of mourning|newspaper=Hindustan Times, City Scan, A Time in History|date=1998-04-29}}</ref> The statue of Sir Man Singh was carved by [[Farmer & Brindley]] of London, at a cost of £2 000, and was unveiled on 13 August 1902 by Sir [[James John Digges La Touche]], Lieutenant-Governor of the [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Court News|date=3 September 1902 |page=7 |issue=36863| }}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Lucknow]]
[[Category:Marble buildings]]
[[Category:1854 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1854]]

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