Categories
  • Union councils of Abbottabad District
  • Abbottabad District
    •   Encyclosphere.org ENCYCLOREADER
      supported by EncyclosphereKSF

    Abbottabad Central

    From Wikipedia - Reading time: 5 min
    Abbottabad Central
    Union Council
    Abbottabad Central
    Abbottabad Central
    Map
    Country Pakistan
    ProvinceKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
    DistrictAbbottabad
    TehsilAbbottabad
    Population
     • Total
    		107,654
    Websitewww.amazonesouq.com

    Abbottabad Central (سنترال ) is one of the 51 union councils of Abbottabad District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1] Located in Abbottabad city, the capital of the district, it borders the following union councils: Malikpura Urban to the north and west, by Salhad to the south and by Dhamtour to the east.

    This area comprises the main Old Town of Abbottabad, established originally during British colonial rule, in 1853, and its immediate suburbs.[2]

    Some of the main interesting places falling within this area include:

    • The Old British Cantonment, along with the Frontier Force Regiment center, the Baloch Regiment center, the Army Medical Corps (Pakistan) headquarters and other military installations.
    • The famous old St. Luke's Church, Abbottabad (established 1864) and the historic Old Christian Cemetery, Abbottabad.
    • The Panj Peer Shrine, or 'Shrine of the Five Saints', associated with Sufis of the Chishti Order[3]
    • The Ladies' Garden Park
    • The old Saddar/Cantonment Bazaar

    References

    [edit]
    1. ^ District Government Abbottabad Archived 2007-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
    2. ^ Abbottabad, NWFP: A Tourists' Guide Pub Peshawar: Government of NWFP, Tourism Department, 1993, pp 1-3
    3. ^ Not to be confused with the famous Panj peer saints of the Punjab

    34°09′00″N 73°13′00″E / 34.1500°N 73.2167°E / 34.1500; 73.2167


    Stub icon

    This Abbottabad District location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

    • v
    • t
    • e
    This article is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
    Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbottabad Central
    Status: article is cached
    Encyclosphere.org EncycloReader is supported by the EncyclosphereKSF