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Science Centre, Surat is a multi-facility complex built by the Surat Municipal Corporation in 2009, the first of its type in western India. The complex houses a science centre, museum, an art gallery, an auditorium, an amphitheater , and a planetarium.
The Mughal Sarai was a caravanserai built in 1644 CE during the Mughal rule. The clock tower was added in 1844 by the British. Surat was founded in the late medieval period, and gradually became an important port in the Mughal Empire, though the earliest human presence may go as early as 300 BCE. [1][2] The Maratha rulers defeated the Mughals ...
Gujarat Sultanate. Surat Castle, or Surat Fort,is a 16th-century structure in the city of Surat. The Ahmedabad king Sultan Mahmood-III (1538–1554) ordered its construction to defend the city from the frequent attacks that had devastated it. He entrusted the work to Safi Agha, a Turkish soldier who had been ennobled with the title of Khudawand ...
2020 — COVID-19 in Surat: Cases tested - 87.23 lakhs. Patients recovered - 2.11 lakhs. Total deaths - 2084. 2023 —Surat Diamond Bourse, built at a cost of approximately Rs 3,500 crore, the building spans 6.6 lakh square metres (71 lakh square feet) of floor space and has the capacity to house nearly 4,500 diamond trading offices.
Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) is a diamond trade centre located in DREAM City, Surat, Gujarat, India, designed by the architecture firm Morphogenesis. It is the world's largest diamond trading hub with a floor space of 660,000 square metres (7,100,000 sq ft), as well as the world's largest office building. [9][10][11] The current Chairman is ...
Surat State School is a government primary and secondary (Prep-10) school for boys and girls at 55 Robert Street (27.1543°S 149.0670°E). [27][28] In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 87 students with 14 teachers (12 full-time equivalent) and 10 non-teaching staff (8 full-time equivalent). [29]
The Caspian Gates in Derbent, Russia, part of the defence systems built by the Sasanian Empire, often identified with the Gates of Alexander. The story of Dhu al-Qarnayn is related in chapter 18 of the Qur'an, al-Kahf, revealed to Muhammad when his tribe, Al-Quraysh, sent two men to discover whether the Jews, with their superior knowledge of ...
Surat Airport [4] (IATA: STV, ICAO: VASU) is an international airport serving Surat, Southern Gujarat. It is located in Magdalla , situated 12 km (6.4 mi) from the city centre. It has a total area of 770 acres (312 ha), and is the second busiest airport in Gujarat after Ahmedabad , in terms of both aircraft movements and passenger traffic.