Q&A: who actually build taj mahal?
Question by m.lakshmi96: who actually build taj mahal?
who actually build taj mahal other than shah jahan?
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Answer by Elizabeth
Taj Mahal means “Crown Palace”.
It was built by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan in 1631 in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, a Muslim Persian princess.
She died while accompanying her husband in Burhanpur in a campaign to crush a rebellion after giving birth to their 14th child. The death so crushed the emperor that all his hair and beard were said to have grown snow white in a few months.
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In 1631, Shah Jahan, emperor during the Mughal empire’s period of greatest prosperity, was griefstricken when his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died during the birth of their fourteenth child, Gauhara Begum. The court chronicles of Shah Jahan’s grief illustrates the love story traditionally held as an inspiration for Taj Mahal. The construction of Taj Mahal begun soon after Mumtaz’s death with the principal mausoleum completed in 1648. The surrounding buildings and garden were finished five years later. Emperor Shah Jahan himself described the Taj in these words:
Should guilty seek asylum here,
Like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion,
All his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs;
And the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made;
To display thereby the creator’s glory.
Tomb of Humayun shares architectural similarities with the Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal incorporates and expands on design traditions of Persian and earlier Mughal architecture. Specific inspiration came from successful Timurid and Mughal buildings including the Gur-e Amir (the tomb of Timur, progenitor of the Mughal dynasty, in Samarkand), Humayun’s Tomb, Itmad-Ud-Daulah’s Tomb (sometimes called the Baby Taj), and Shah Jahan’s own Jama Masjid in Delhi. While earlier Mughal buildings were primarily constructed of red sandstone, Shah Jahan promoted the use of white marble inlaid with semi-precious stones, and buildings under his patronage reached new levels of refinement.
Taj Mahal India
In 1631 the emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in memory of his wife Mumtaz, who died in childbirth.
The Taj Mahal
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Maestro Ravi Shankar
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JctKjVHmo2g
You’ll need to listen to the above music to fill your soul with the sound of India before allowing your eyes to feast upon the world’s most magnificent artwork of the Mongol Empire of India.
India – Jewel in the Crown.
Mohd. Effendi was the architect.
Logically speaking, the answers of other answerers is correct—Shah Jahan.
Actually, Shah Jahan didn’t built that edifice. It was his followers. Imagine an emperor-king of India that builds building with his own bare hands. The credit gone on him since he had the power that time and he ordered people to do that.