Hasrat Mohani Library

Hasrat Mohani Library, also known as Hasrat Mohani District Central Library, Hyderabad, and formerly known as Holm Stead Free Readers Hall, (Urdu: حسرت موہانی لائبریری) is a public library located in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan, adjacent to Pacco Qillo.

[2] It is the oldest library in the city of Hyderabad.

[1] The library was built in 1905 as Homestead Hall in the honor of Dr. Homestead, a well-known surgeon of Hyderabad, Sindh.

[2][3] After the partition of India, Radio Pakistan set up a regional office in the library which they occupied until 1967.

[2] In 1967, the library was renamed after a noted poet of Urdu language, Hasrat Mohani.