Karbala Talkatora, (Karbala Mir Khuda Baksh). (Lucknow)

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Waqf No. 87/1011
This is a religious site for shia muslims, it contains many Rauza (Shrines), This is the where Shia muslim comes on 10th of Muharram and do matam. This place is also used as cemetery. This Karbala was built by Mir Khuda Baksh . Mir Khuda Baksh started his career in the service of Khwajasara Afreen Ali Khan who was quite close to Asaf-ud-Daulah. His interest in theology and religion made him become a disciple of Syed Dildar Ali Naqvi, the Shia mujtahid and earliest propagator of Azadari (mourning rituals) in Lucknow. He was posthumously titled as Ghufran Maab by his followers.[His Imambara in the city is internationally known for its Shaam-e-Ghariban majlis, held in the dark after sunset, on Aashura]. Later Khuda Baksh also became a close confident of Muatamad-ud-Daulah Agha Mir, who became the Prime Minister of Awadh when Ghazi-ud-Din Haider became the first King of Awadh. Mir Khuda Baksh faced problems on the demise of an infant daughter, whom he finally managed to bury at the Karbala of llmas Ali Khan. Thereafter, he thought of building a Karbala on his own which would be accessible for burial to common people as weil. He purchased 30 bigha of land from Kaptan Hasan Ali and commenced the construction of the Karbala on the birth anniversary of Hazrat Ali on Rajab 13, in 1232 Hijri (1817 A.D.), during the reign of Nawab Ghazi-ud-Din Haider. Under the supervision of Sadiq Ali Zair, the construction was completed within six months. The Persian taareekh (chronogram) for the construction is fixed on the west-side gateway of the quadrangle of the Karbala which bears the name of the ruler Ghazi-ud-Din Haider with that of the builder Mir Khuda Baksh and his patron Afreen Ali Khan.
After the 1857-58 conflict, the British, apart from some rare exceptions, made it mandatory to bury all taazias in the Karbala of Mir Khuda Baksh and thus it gained a special status and importance. It was till 1907 that both Shia and Sunni Muslims took their taazia to this Karbala. However, after conflict between the two sects in that year (1907), the latter began taking their taazia to Phool Katora at Nishat Ganj, Lucknow.