Habba Kadal ( ; ) is a wooden

bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...

located in the old city of Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India that crosses the Jhelum river. It was first built in 1551 by Sultan Habib Shah of the

Shah Miri Dynasty The Shah Mir dynasty was a dynasty that ruled the region of Kashmir in the Indian subcontinent. The dynasty is named after its founder, Shah Mir. During the rule of the dynasty from 1339 to 1561, Islam forcefully established in Kashmir. Orig ...

and is one of the seven original bridges that have existed in the city for a long time. It had to be rebuilt during Dogra rule after the heavy floods of 1893.Sir Walter Roper Lawrence. Although originally planned to be dismantled as the

New Habba Kadal New Habba Kadal is a concrete bridge located in the Downtown Srinagar, old city of Srinagar, in the Indian Kashmir Conflict, state of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir. It was built in 2001 to replace the original Habba Kada ...

bridge made it redundant, the government, as part of its policy of preserving heritage, undertook renovation of the bridge. It was started in 2013 and took two years to complete. Finally, the bridge again opened to public in 2015.

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