Several monuments in
Lucknow were constructed by Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar. He built the
Chattar Manzil palace and added the
Mubarak Manzil and the
Shah Manzil in the
Moti Mahal complex for better viewing of the animal fights. He also constructed the tombs of his parents, Sadat Ali Khan and Mushir Zadi Begum. For his European wife
Mary Short, he constructed a European style building known as the
Vilayati Bagh. Another creation, the
Shah Najaf Imambara (1816), his mausoleum, on the bank of the
Gomti is a copy of the fourth Caliph
Ali's (R.A) burial place in
Najaf,
Iraq. His three wives, Sarfaraz Mahal, Mubarak Mahal and Mumtaz Mahal were also buried here. Ghazi-ud-Din first appointed a British artist, Robert Home (1752–1834) as his court artist and after his retirement in 1828, he appointed another Briton,
George Duncan Beechey (1798–1852) as his court artist. In 1815, Raja Ratan Singh (1782–1851), a noted astronomer, poet and scholar of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Sanskrit and English joined his court. Because of his initiative, a royal litho printing press in Lucknow was set up in 1821 and the
Haft Qulzum, a dictionary and grammar of the Persian language in two volumes was published from this press in the same year. ==Coins of Ghazi-ud-Din==