Hyderabad Municipal Maps, Phisal Banda, Sheet No- 1 Front

The area covered on the map is much of uninhabited in nature except the area around Ren Bazar Street, where mostly graves are identifiable. Above the Ren Bazar Street, a channel is flowing and all the nearby stepwells are fed by the channel only. Stepwells were developed mainly for the storage purpose especially in the arid regions like Deccan. It was easy for the people to get the access as well as manage the groundwater than with big well and tank. Besides these graves and stepwells, Dargah, Chilla, Ashur Khana, Temple, and Masjid are also identifiable on the map. The Dargah Muhi-ud-Din Shah Kadri and an Ashurkhana along with another Dargah are showed in the Chhatri Street lane. The word Dargah means court in Persian, is a shrine, built over the grave of a holy figure like a saint or Sufi, becomes significant after the death of the saint, and devotion towards the saint leads to the transformation of his grave into the center of pilgrimage and annual ceremonies, are seen as the popular places of worship over a period of time. Ashur Khana literally means a house of the 10th day Muharram or Shiite house of mourning. A mourning place for Shias during Muharram festival constructed in the memory of Imam Hussain. There are many Ashur Khanas identifiable in the city of Hyderabad, and construction of those was traceable back to the Golconda Sultanate, indeed, indicate the Shiite affiliation of Qutb Shahis. And, the word Chilla has many meanings like 'retreat' in western religious terms, whereas both in Arabic and Persian literally means forty. It is a spiritual practice of penance and solitude in Sufism. The Sufi/dervish isolated from any human contact and remain in a practice of meditation without food for forty days and nights within a small room like the ritual of Arbaeen, an observance take place for forty days after the Muharram 10, especially of Shia Muslims. So, here the buildings also seem such one.