About Taj Mahal
Built by a grief stricken Emperor Shah Jehan as a memorial to his beloved wife
Mumtaj Mahal , the Taj Mahal has a structural elegance and pristine beauty that
has been rarely matched . It took 20 thousand men nearly 22 years to build the
mausoleum and the finest of skilled artisans were brought in to inlay the white
marble edifice with precious stones and to conjure filigreed marble screens
around the centaphs of the emperor and his beloved queen . there is a jewel
-like quality about the taj mahal.
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Architecture of Taj
Mahal
The Taj itself stands on a raised platform. The four minarets at each comer
of the plinth provide a perfect balance to the tomb. The minarets measure 41.6
Ih high and each has a deliberate slant outwards so that in an unlikely even!
of an earthquake, they would not fall on the tomb but away from it. The bulbous
dome of the Taj Mahal rests on an extraordinarily high drum and rises to a total
height of 44.41 mt. trom the base of the drum to the apex of the finial.
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Pictures of Taj Mahal
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