Wahabpora is a village of Budgam District, Jammu and Kashmir, India situated at the bank of Aihaji River. Wahabpora is about 10 km away from the district headquarters Budgam and 21 km from Srinagar the summer capital city ofJammu and Kashmir. It is towards North located at. The village Wahabpora consists of about six mohallahs those are as: Peer Mohallah, Taingapora, Watipora, Ganaiepora, New Colony and Chinar colony. It is necessary to describe that Chinar colony was a part of Mosviabad and Al-Mehdi Chowk is the famous region of Chinar colony is the colony which is the central part of the village where are five big chinars about the age five hundred years old. The brother in law of MughalKingJahangir and that time Governor of Kashmir Asif Khan had planted these five chinars. Chinar Garden of Wahabpora is also known as Asif Ali Bagh. Gariend is the neighbouring village to Wahabpora. Gariend is the second largest village after Wahabpora. Famous plane crushing event occurred near this place which is also known as Gariend-Wahabpora plane crashing event-2019. The population of Wahabpora is about 14,000. The area of the village is about 6 km2 which is the total area of the village captured by residential land, deep wet land, Agricultural land and dry high land etc. It contains 600 hectares of total land. It has an average elevation of 1610 meters.This village consists of many sects of Islam like as Shias, Sunnis and Noorbakshia Islam. Literacy rate of this village is 91.90%.
Al-Mehdi Chowk
Al-Mehdi Chowk is the central part of Wahabpora. This area is named after 12th Shia ImamImam Mahdi. This area consists of head offices of many organisations like as Almehdi Islamic Library, Raheislam Organisation, Ali Asgar a.s. Relief Trust, JK Bank Khadmat Centre, Mosvi Computers, Mosiviyat Enclave and Bagh-i-Zainab a.s. Trust etc. Moosavi Cemetery is also located in this region. This area playing an important role for economy and culture of the village. It is called the Business Hub of Wahabpora.
Mosiviyat Enclave
"Mosiviyat Enclave" is the official residence of Patron of Raheislam Organisation and Mosvi Youth Club located at Almehdi Chowk, Mosviabad, Wahabpora.
Wahabpora
Meaning of Wahabpora
The name "Wahabpora" is made of two words: Wahab and Pora, Wahab is a name of Allah Tallah which means "Provider or one who gives" and in common language Pora is used to indicate any region, village or town. So Wahabpora means region of providers which provides humanitarian services to all.
Shrine of Aga Mir Mosavi
In this village there is a shrine situated near the main bus stand. A renowned scholar and a'alim Aga Mir Syed Mohammad Baqir Mosavi is buried here. The shrine is surrounded with cemented wall and the colour of the shrine is dark green. Famous marsiya khani Astan Bandar is held here.
This village is connected through telecom services to all entire world. Airtel, Bsnl, Aircel, Voda, Aircel and Reliance Jio are the main telecom service providers in this area. On 21 February 2018 Aircel stopped its services in the whole country. The local subscribers also affected in this village.
Transport
Wahabpora is connected through roads via Budgam, Magam, Bemina, Srinagar and Beerwah.
