City wall of Jaipur

Jaipur walled city gate, 1907.

The Jaipur city wall is the city wall encircling the old Jaipur city in Rajasthan state in India. It was built in 1727 when the city was founded by Maharaja Jai Singh II.The wall is six meters high and three meters thick. There are seven gates in the wall.The gates are:

Chandpole
Surajpole
Ajmeri gate
New gate
Sanganeri gate
Ghat gate
Samrat gate
Zorawar Singh Gate

References

Building Jaipur: the making of an Indian city By Vibhuti Sachdev, Giles Henry Rupert Tillotson
Jaipur Municipal Corporation

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