Allahabad Public Library
Location: Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
Size: approx. 125,000 books, 40 magazines
Established: 1864
Country: India
The library has an approximate collection of 125,000 books, 40
types of magazines and 28 different newspapers in Hindi, English, Urdu and Bangla and contains 21 Arabic manuscripts. It also has a
collection of old government publications, parliamentary papers, and blue books
of the 19th century, old manuscripts and journals.
Building
The building known as Thornhill Mayne Memorial is situated at Alfred Park and was designed by Richard Roskell Bayne in Scottish Baronial architecture with sharp pillars and turrets of granite and sandstone. It represents structural polychromy with lofty towers and arcaded cloisters. When completed in 1870, the building cost approx. INR 94,222.
It
was funded by Commissioner of Allahabad, Mr. Mayne and was opened as a memorial
to Cuthbert Bensley Thornhill.
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