Alipur, Karnataka

Alipur
Town
Country  India
State Karnataka
District Chikkaballapur
Founded by Syed Mustafa Hussain abedi shakedaar
Government
 • Body Gram Panchayati & Anjuman-e-Jafria, Under Government of Karnataka,India
Population (2018)
 • Total 30,000
Languages
 • Official Urdu
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN 561213
Telephone code 08155

Alipur is a Shia Muslim-majority town in Karnataka state of India, It is located off highway SH94, 55 km away from Kempegowda International Airport and 70 km from Bangalore.

Visiting Alipur is an altogether new experience. Surrounded by the nature's bounty, Shi'a mainstream in India, it is a unique town, harboring a Shia population of 30,000+ fashioning the lives of its inhabitants. Syed Mustafa Hussain was known as Belligunta 300 years ago. It began to attract attention following arrival of Syed Mustafa Hussain, an Abidi Sadat following the downfall of Adil Shahi kingdom of Bijapur. Hussaini and his wife Bathoola settled down here. Much later poet-scholar Mohammad Shaffi Baqari arrived from Hyderabad 150 years age .Mohammad Shaffi Baqari founded the Madrassa-e-Jafria. His son Abbas Baqari who lived up to an age of 115 years, made strenuous efforts and taught a lot of people in and around the town. He founded the Anjuman-e-Jafria which today controls the mosques, ashurkhanas, madrassa, eidgah and graveyard.Later many Shia Muslims tribes migrated from Karimpur, Kamlapur, Dabaspet, Manchar, Pottanahalli,Berganahalli & In the year 1942 a famous tribe migrated from Thyamagondlu (Tamlur). Alipur is the Center of Shia Community in South India.

There has been occasional visits by many leaders from across India and from other countries. Among them top listed are K. Rahman Khan MP of India, Khurshed Alam Khan EX Indian Foreign Minister, Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader) of India invited by Mir Ali Raza Najafi founder of BHM English School which is first english school in Alipur Village, H. D. Deve Gowda Ex-Prime Minister of India, H. D. Kumaraswamy Chief Minister of Karnataka, Mohammad Mahmood Ali is the Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana by Dr Syed Roshan Abbas and State General Secretary JD(S). and Mir Mohammed Raza, Rasikh Gems and Jewellers. Also Mohammad Azharuddin Ex-Captain of Indian Cricket team, R. L. Jalappa Ex-MP of India, Veerappa Moily MP and Ex Chief Minister of Karnataka,N H Shivashankar Reddy Deputy Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and visited by Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to the seat of supreme spiritual leader of the Islamic Republic. Then came a clutch of MPs such as Ayatollah Jannati, Kashani, Ghayuri and Asafi. The main thoroughfare, Imam Khomeini Road (IK MAIN ROAD), named after the Iranian spiritual leader, culminates in an outsized, A Beautiful architectural style-domed mosque on one end and a modest Imam Khomeini Hospital on the other. Imam Khomeini Hospital came up in 1991 under Imam Khomeini Medical Trust.Alipur is known for commorating AYYAM-E-FATIMIYA (known as maqsusi)where large number of pilgrims across India visits Alipur and give their condolence to the holy ahlebait(A.s). [1]

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References

  1. ↑ Harish Ramaswamy (1 January 2007). Karnataka Government and Politics. Concept Publishing Company. p. 352. ISBN 978-81-8069-397-7.


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