Situated in the old Ahmedabad city,The Bhadra Fort was bulit by Ahmad Shah 1 in the 14th century. This well-carved ancient treasure reminds us of the stories of the gone era. Another adjacent monument to this fort is the Teen Darwaza ,it is also known as the cultural center of the city.it is interesting to know that the name of this fort has been taken from goddess Bhadra kali who is also a form goddess laxmi.
Sultan Ahmed Shah had built this magnificent fort on the eastern banks of the river sabarmati. Earlier, it was also known ass the arak fort. This fort covers a massive area of about 43 acres and consists of about 162 houses along with eight gates. And when in 1817,Ahmedabad was captured by the British ,this fort was used as a prison to confine the political prisoners and revolutionaries.
Teen Darwaza is Famous for its architectural building. It has an elegant triple arched gateway. This is the longest and oldest gateways of the City of Ahmedabad. Teen Darwaza faces the glorious Bhadra fort and is wonderfully carved in stone, which gives a striking appearance to the tourists. This gives a royal entry to square. The pillars and walls of Teen Darwaza are designed marvelously. The windows of this striking monument are semi-circular in shape and are decorated using meshes. This is said that Noor Jahan and Jahangir used to watch multicolored processions from this place.
History:
The Teen Darwaza was an egress from Bhadra fort to the eastward. The gateway has three arches which led into a large enclosure, forming the outer couttyard of the palace called Maidan Shah in past, with a fountain and raised terrace in the centre. The roadway in the central opening is 17 feet wide, and that of each side arch is 13 feet wide. It has highly decorated buttresses on the faces of the gateway was formerly roofed over. But in 1877 the gateway was repaired, and the terrace presence, and the great feufatories ot foreign embassies assembled before approaching the and gala-day reviews,or held court in the cool of the evening beside the splashing fountain.
Now the area is congested market. It was built by Ahmed shah 1 immediately after the foundation Ahmedabad and completed in 1415. Through it, in 1459, Mahmud Begada, King for only few months, and not fifteen years old, quiver on back and blow in hand, with only 300 horsemen, marched to disperse his rebel nobles and their 30,000 followers.
Leaving the palace, the young king ordered the leading to it to be held by elephants, and with royal music playing, marched slowly along the main street.his cool bravery gave some of his faithful nobles time to join, and forming a considerable force, though small compared with the insurgents, attacked them, put them to flight and destroyed their leaders. Later the newly appointed Maratha governors used to aim five arrows at one of its beams, and augur good or ill to their administration in accordance with their success in striking it.