Showing posts with label Taj Mahal India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taj Mahal India. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal is located on the right bank of the
Yamuna River in a huge Mughal garden that encompass nearly 17 hectares, in the
Agra District in Uttar Pradesh. It was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in remembrance
of his wife Mumtaz Mahal with building starting in 1632 AD and finished in 1648
AD, with the mosque, the guest house and the main entry on the south, the outer
courtyard and its cloisters were added subsequently and completed in 1653 AD.
The survival of several historical is chronology of Taj Mahal. For its building,
masons, stone-cutters, inlayers, carvers, painters, calligraphers, dome builders
and other artisans were requisitioned from the whole of the empire and also
from the Central Asia and Iran. Ustad-Ahmad Lahori was the main designer of the
Taj Mahal.
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