Anees Chukbust Library

Anees Chukbust Library

 This library, located at the mouth of Haiderganj street on the left side, after crossing two passes from Reedganj near Faizabad Nagar Kotwali, holds a special place of its own. This library is established in the memory of two important poets of the city, Mir Anees and Pt. Braj Narayan 'Chakbast'. In the year 1975, this library was established in the Imambara of the poet Mir Anees. This Imambara of Mir Anees was converted into Kanji House at that time. The idea of saving the memory of this illustrious poet by removing the Kanji House came to the mind of Azhar Ali Abdi, a resident of the Imambara at Rathhaveli. To implement this idea, he got the IAS of the city itself. Athar Hussain Abdi's cooperation was found.

Due to his efforts, Kanji House was removed from this house and the library was duly started by arranging building and furniture with the grant of one lakh rupees from the government. Initially, people started it with two-four hundred books, which at present the number has reached more than ten thousand. It is looked after by a committee of local people whose current secretary is Mr. Pervez Abdi. This library has become a bit irregular after the release of the librarian Ali Athar Abdi, who had maintained and accounted for the books of this library from the beginning. Fund of senior journalist Shahid Siddiqui, who was recently a member of Rajya Sabha

A meeting room has also been constructed above the library, which is used non-commercially for literary and cultural events.