Majlis at Chup Tazia House Lucknow, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

I had shot this a very long time back and this house in the bylanes of Nakas caled Knkar Kua belongs to the founder of the Chup Tazia Syed Baqar who was the ex Principal of Shia Girls College.

The Maulana weeping at the mimber during the narration of Massaib is Maulana Ashfaqure brother of Maulana Athhar Saab Mirza..

A little ahead climbing a mound is Pata Nala and as you trudge up the bric stairs you come to much tinier lanes and in one of these lanes at Imliwali Galli was the house of my maternal grandfather Daroga Nabban Saab related to Mir Anis the poet laureate of Lucknow..
I was born here under the care of my maternal grandmother Nazmi Begum..

This house just recently got sold by my Uncles wife.

A further ahead of this house was Subatiya Bagh a stronghold of Sunnis, and ancestral seat of my paternity.. My paternal grandfather Bashir Hussain Saab converted to Shiasm after marrying my grand mother Khurshed Baji..

We have remained Shias ever since..

Posted by photographerno1 on 01 Oct 2008 12:06 pm
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