Akbar

Badshah Akbar's bridge on the river  at Jaunpur, some 58 kms from Varanasi. It was the capital of a thriving and cultured sultanate power from the last decade of the fourteenth century until the city was destroyed by the armies of Sikander Shah Lodi in the 1490s. The city was strategically important due to its location at a crossing point on the river Gomti. The massive Akbari Bridge, a remarkable structure with fifteen arches, was built between 1564 and 1568 by Munim Khan, the local governor under Mughal Emperor Akbar.