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Subhani Building
The imposing heights, delicately designed and carefully crafted wood work and the hanging galleries of wood on all sides of the Subhani building speak of its past. Subhani Miyan, a businessman, had constructed Subhani building in 1931. The building was believed to be one of the few tall buildings in Ludhiana with six stories. Its spacious rooms and multiple stairs speak of the motive of the man who had constructed the house and rightly named it after himself.
The Subhani building is located in the heart of the city, with the Christian Medical College and Hospital in the east, railway station in the west, wool market in the north and Field Gunj in the south. Subhani Miyan is said to have constructed this huge house to establish his superior status in society.
The building with about 20 rooms had all the facilities, which may be considered a luxury even from the modern standards. Subhani Miyan had several children and he had constructed one room for each son, besides several guest rooms with a central lobby. The entrance to the house was decoratively designed, the remains of which can be seen even now.
The building appears to have been constructed not with an architectural design only but also with an aesthetic sense. The woodwork still makes the visitor feel awe-struck. The quality of wood, apparently deodar, is too good to have succumbed to the vagaries of weather for the past so many years.
But he could not live in it for too long. The partition made him and his family to migrate to Pakistan. The building remained uncared and unattended for over a decade. It was in 1959 that the building was purchased by a local businessman in an auction by the government. It was renamed as Grand Hotel. The hotel was supposed to be one of the best and most visited during the sixties.
The hotel was closed down in the seventies and was rented out to the PSEB. However, the PSEB also left the building. Except for about 10 shops in the ground floor, the entire building remains deserted now.
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