Taj Mahal

Shah Jehan only renovated the building, which was there for at least 1000 years, i.e., long before Shah Jehan.

The Taj Mahal has been standing for 481 years. Or maybe 381 years?

tomb of Itimad-ud-Duala

171 meters in total.

Taj Mahal is a mausoleum built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife Mumtaz Mahal. It was built between 1632-1653. UNESCO documented more than 2 million tourists visiting Taj Mahal in 2001. There were also 200,000 visitors from overseas that year. On average the Taj Mahal receives 2 to 4 million visitors annually.

it belongs to the TATA GROUP OF COMPANIES

Taj Mahal is a part of the pre-Muslim fort built by the Rajput Kings; it was not built by any Muslim but a Muslim king called Shah Jehan took it from a Rajput king Jagat Singh and remodelled it by putting two red mosques on two sides of a white temple of Siva.

The whitle marble building faces East, according to Hindu religion. There are motifs of flowers, plants which are prohibited in Islamic building. On the top dome there is lotus, cocoanut, trident, all Hindu symbol.

Like most buildings Muslims who came to India as barbarian Arab, Mongol, Turks could only convert the buildings into Mosques as they did also in Istanbul.

Mongols or Mughals are still nomadic uncivilized people ( before they came into contact with the Russians). They live in tent even today. How can they think of Taj Mahal?

There are an estimated 24,348 windows in the Burj Khalifa, Dubai. The glass and steel of the Burj Khalifa would take an estimated eight weeks to clean.

Taj Mahal is primarily constructed of white marble. The platorm is in turne of a rosy sandstone but mostly the marble. The entire surface is ornamented with peitra dura work.

The type of marble used is called 'Makrana marble', named after the town in which the marble is taken from in Rajistan (a state in India).

Taj Mahal is a part of the pre-Muslim fort built by the Rajput Kings; it was not built by any Muslim but a Muslim king called Shah Jehan took it from a Rajput king Jagat Singh and remodelled it by putting two red mosques on two sides of a white temple of Siva. The whitle marble building faces East, according to Hindu religion. There are motifs of flowers, plants which are prohibited in Islamic building. On the top dome there is lotus, cocoanut, trident, all Hindu symbol. Like most buildings Muslims who came to India as barbarian Arab, Mongol, Turks could only convert the buildings into Mosques as they did also in Istanbul.

1 reason is that due to pollution the air become full of dirt and after that when rain come it come with the dirt air in the form of acid rain

due to acid rain the the taj mahal islosing its shine

thank you

by :yashika of doon public school , 8A

yes it is haunted but dont be scared

The Taj Mahal is in India and India is in Asia, so the Taj Mahal is in Asia.

The Mughal empire

To amaze tourists and people in India.

Taj Mahal is a pre-Islamic fort. The construction and architecture reveals that. What is now Taj Mahal was a part of a huge building. Mongols when they overrun India were uncivilized nomadic barbarians never seen any buildings but used to live in tents ( they still do, go to Uzbeckistan and see). They could never built Taj Mahal. Taj Mahal was a temple of Shiva. Mongol emperor Shahjehan took it back from Jagat Singh and reconstructed as a Mosque, but with a wrong direction (facing East rather than West).

Shah Jehan had no wife named Mumtaj Mahal or Taj Mahal. The name of the quuen who was buried next to him was named Arjumand Zamani.

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Shah Jahan wanted to build it to show how much he loved his wife Mumtaz Mahal and to honor her.

The purpose of the original gateway to the Taj Mahal was twofold. First, it was to keep the view of the main building from sight until it could be viewed under the archway, where it is framed magnificently. Secondly, it served as a transition from the outer, more physical world to the inner part of the Taj complex, which represented the peaceful, more spiritual side.

Not really. If you look at pictures they are wrong they are fake

Tipu Sultan expanded the use of the Hindustani language in the south of India. He also made several other innovations, including the institution of a new coinage, a new lunar calendar, a new land revenue system, and increased the Mysore silk industry. He also expanded the iron-cased rocket program, which he used in fighting the military advances of the British.

The Taj Mahal is from the inside it is made from great white marble and has Mumtaz's body in it (that was his wife that passed away) and that is all I know about what the Taj Mahal looks like you could search it up on google.

Problem was to decide with the constructors, architects and main builders to be decided. If after building the unique monument, the <creators> allowed to go <free>, they would be able to build another masterpiece like the Taj (at that time, no such building with that dimension was available). So the secretarite and the Emperor Sha Jahan had tob decide, how to eliminate the architects. Some were killed, some cut the tongue, some made blind. Its crucial, torturious but a fact.