Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Tajmahal

The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum placed in Agra, India. The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned it as a mausoleum for his favorite’s wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Building started in 1632 and was fulfilled in 1648. Few arguments surrounds the question of who designed the Taj; it is clear a team of designers and craftsmen were in charge for the plan, with Ustad Isa cautiously the most likely candidate as the main designer.

The Taj Mahal sometimes called "the Taj is normally recognized as the finest instance of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements of Persian and Indian. While the white domed marble mausoleum is the nearly all memorable part of the monument, the Taj Mahal is truly an included complex of structures. It was planned as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983 when it was explained as universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.

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