The Taj Mahal

Lacation- agra, India

Coordinates – 27'10'29"N

                        780232'E

                        27.174799'N

                        78.042111'E

Elevation- 171m(561fit)

Built- 1632-1653citation

Architect- ustad ahmad lahauri

Architectural style- mughal

Visitation – more than 3 million

The Taj Mahal became a UNESCO in 1983. The Taj Mahal is familiar component by white domed marble. The Taj Mahal’s construction start on 1632 and completed in around 1653. The eight wonders of the world Taj Mahal is on of them. Taj Mahal architectural beauty has never been surpassed noted by some western historians. The Mughals are built Taj Mahal’s beauty monument. Taj Mahal is built by white marbal. 

Taj Mahal is on of the eight wanders of the world. This architectural beauty has never been surpassed. This architectural beauty noted by some western historians. The Taj is the most beauty full monument who built by mughals the Muslim rulers of the India. Its stunning architectural beauty was beyond adequate description by dawn and sunset. The Taj is glow in the light of the moon. The visitors experience the Taj on a foggy morning as if suspended when viewed from across the Jamuna River.

The Taj Mahal was built by an Emperor Saha Jahan in the memory of his wife and queen Mumtaz Mahal in the place of Agra in country of India. It is an elegy in marble say an expression of a dream Taj Mahal is a mausoleum that houses the grave of Queen Mumtaz Mahal at the lower chamber. Sha Jahans graves were added to its later. The queen’s real name was Ariumand Banu. Saha Jahan’s real mane was Shahab-ud-din, ascending to the throne in 1628 after he was known as prince Khurram.

Over a period of twenty two years Taj Mahal was constructed by the twenty thousand workers and at a cost 32 Million Rupees and it was completes in 1648 C.E.. In this time Ustad Isa is a famous islamin architect. Ustad Isa shows this architect plane. To build the Taj mahal many expert craftsmen worked and the expert craftsmen came in Delhi, Qannauj, Lahore, Multan. They are built it very carefully and softly.

It stands on a raised square platform in 186 x 186 feet with its four corners truncated and unequal octagon. Using the interlocking arabesque concept by the architectural design it. Symmetry of architectural element of self replicating geometry was used principles. Its central domes are fifty eight feet in diameter and rises to a height of 213 feet. It is flanked by four subsidiary domed chambers and slender minarets are 165.5 feet each. Its designs look very beauty full. It designs of flowers.

The complex is set around a garden that large 300 meter square. The garden divides each of the four quarters of the garden into 16 sunken flowerbeds. In the garden have a raised marble water tank of the center. A between tombs situated in the garden on the north south axis. The raised marble water tank is called al Hawd al-Kawthar. In the garden there has a many tree who look very beautiful.

Taj Mahal site plan.

    Taj Mahal site plan is very good. The site plan is-

The Moonlight garden to the north or the yamuna,

Terrace area- Tomb, Mosque and Jawab.

Charbagh-gardens

Gateway attendant accommodations and other tombs.

Taj Ganji-bazaar

The Taj complex is bounded on three sides by red sandstone walls and river side left open. Several additional mausoleums were outside the wall. Garden facing inner sides the wall of the Mughal mosque. Two red sandstone buildings are stand on the side of bomb at the far of the complex.