Historical Places In India

PRESENTED BY:SMT. KIRAN GSSS, Lamba Pind

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The Taj Mahal, designed as a tomb for the wife of a 17thcentury Mughal emperor, was constructed by about 20,000 workers from 1632 to 1648 in Āgra, a city in northern India. The massive domed structure was constructed in the IndoIslamic style, using white marble and inlaid gems. At each corner is a minaret (prayer tower), and passages from the Qur'an (Koran), the Muslim holy book, adorn the outside walls. The bodies of the emperor and his wife remain in a vault below the building.

• Red Fort, palace of the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan, dating from the mid-17th century in Delhi, in northern India. Delhi's preeminence among Indian cities was confirmed when, in 1638, Shah Jahan moved his capital to Delhi from Agra

• Just south of Delhi, in northern India, stands the 73-m (240-ft) Qutb Minar victory tower. The sandstone and marble tower was constructed in the 13th century by Qutubuddin Aybak, the Muslim founder of the Delhi Sultanate, and his successors. The tower has five stories, each with a balcony. • .

• Golden Temple, temple in Amritsar, in Punjab, northwestern India, the principal shrine of the Sikh religion, a monotheistic religion that combines elements of Hinduism and Islam;

• Jama Masjid (Delhi), (Great Mosque or Friday Mosque), principal mosque in old Delhi and the largest mosque in India. It was built at the height of the Mughal Empire (see India: History) and is the last of the great building works undertaken by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who created the new city of Shahjahanabad (Old Delhi) in ten years,

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The Baha’i Temple in Delhi, India, is one of the city’s most distinctive landmarks. Popularly known as the Lotus Temple, it is built of white marble in the shape of a half-opened lotus flower. Baha’i is a nondenominational religious faith founded in the late 19th century. The world’s largest Baha’i community is found in India, where about 2 million people adhere to the faith. Social aims based in the principles of the Baha’i faith include the abolition of racial and religious prejudice.