Sansad Bhavan

New Delhi


This circular, colonnaded building, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, was where the 1947 handover of power from Britain to the newly independent India took place, and parliament still meets here. It isn't open to the public.

Transportation

  • metro: Central Secretariat

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