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What are facts about TAJ MAHAL?
It is located in India, and a beautiful dome. Sie saugen sie dumm geben mehr als zwei Fakten.The Taj Mahal is a world famous white marble temple India noted for its use of balance and symmetry in India. Mst people think that it is a beautiful burial chamber that Shaj Jahan built in memory of his favourite wife.What is written above is a British-Muslim Propaganda. Shah Jehan had no queen named Taj Mahal; it is impossible. Taj means crown; Mahal means building. Is it possible for any woman to have a strange name Crown Building. Mahal is Sanskrit. The court language during Shah Jehan was Persian, where a building is called Manzil, not Mahal.Shah Jehan's favourite queen's name was Arjumand Zamani not Taj Mahal.Shah Jehan got this building from Jagat Singh, the grand son of Man Singh, commander in chief of Akbar, the grandfather of Shah Jehan. Man Singh got it from earlier days. Taj Mahal was a part of a Hindu palace. It has four floors; which the British blocked with stonewalls.The building is facing East, just like any Hindu building, not west, which any Muslim building should face.It has motives of flowers and plants, prohibited in Muslim architecture.It has octagonal shape, according to Hindu Vastu Shastra.It was never built by Shah Jehan, who modified it to put verses of Koran, not any love poems.Mahal is a Sanskrit word means building; in Persian the corresponding word is Manzil.Taj came from the original word Tejendra one of the names of shiva. Taj Mahal was a Shiva temple within a Rajput palace, which was taken over by theMongol shah Jehan to turn it into a tomb.Read more: Why_was_the_taj_mahal_named_the_taj_mahalRead more: What_was_the_Taj_Mahal_for
Special features about Taj Mahal?
the taj mahal used 1000 elephants to transport marble from one area to another during the process of construction the taj mahal took 22 years for construction the taj mahal cost 32 million rupees to build for shah jahan 20000 employees worked to construct the taj mahal
