Taj Mahal

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The Taj Mahal (in Hindi ताजमहल ) is located at Âgrâ, at the edge of the river Yamunâ in the State of the Uttar Pradesh in India. It is a Mausolée of white marble built by the emperor moghol Shâh Jahân in memory of his wife Arjumand Bânu Begam, so known under the name of Mumtaz Mahal , which means in Persan “the light of the palate”. She dies the June 17th 1631 by giving rise to their fourteenth child whereas she went to the countryside. She on the spot finds a first burial in the Zainabad garden with Burhampur. Following its death which has occurred on January 31st 1666, her husband was buried near it. Construction begins in 1632. However, it remains a polemic on the exact date of the end of work. The official chronicler of Shah Jahan, Abdul Hamid Lahori indicates that Taj Mahal is completed fine 1643 or beginning 1644. But to the main entrance an inscription indicates that construction was completed in 1648. The State of Uttar Pradesh, which officially celebrated the 350e birthday of the building in 2004, affirms as for him that work was completed in 1654. Among the 20 ' 000 people who worked on the building site, one finds master craftsmen coming from Europe and Central Asia. The principal architect was Usad Ahmad of Lahore. July 7th, 2007, celebrates it monument was indicated like one of the seven new wonders of the world by a nonofficial organization and related to commercial (NewOpenWorld Foundation).

The complex of Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal is built by using materials coming from various areas of India and the remainder of the Asia. More than 1.000 elephant S are employed to transport construction materials during the construction. The white Marbre is extracted from the the Rajasthan, the Jaspe comes from the Panjâb, the turquoise and the Malachite of the Tibet, the Lapis-lazuli of the Sri Lanka, the Corail of the Red Sea, the Cornaline of Perse and the Yemen, the onyx of the Deccan and Perse, the Grenat S of the Gange and the Boundelkhand, the Agate of the Yemen and Jaisalmer, the Rock crystal of the The Himalayas. In all, 28 types of fine stones or decorative Polychrome S were used to compose the reasons of Marqueterie encrusted in the white marble.

The central dome of the tomb is surrounded by four Minaret S identical, which is inclined towards outside so that in the event of Earthquake, they collapse in the direction opposed to the tomb. With the left of the monument a Mosquée is, made red sandstone, which was built in order to sanctify the place and to provide a place of worship to the pilgrims. Right-sided, is an exact symmetrical counterpart of the mosque, known under the name of jawab (“answer”), intended to maintain the symmetry architectural but which is not employed as mosque because it is not directed towards Mecque. Lastly, in front of the monument was the charbâgh (“four gardens”) traditional Persan planted trees, and where flowers in abundance push. The British viceroy Lord Curzon replaced this garden by typically British lawns.

The complex of the Taj Mahal is registered with the world heritage UNESCO since 1983.

The gallery of Taj Mahal

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