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El Taj-Mahal, la maravilla arquitectónica más famosa de la India, se sitúa en Agra, capital del imperio mogol entre los siglos XVI y XVIII. Fue mandado construir en 1631 por el emperador Shah Jahan en memoria de su esposa Mumtaz Mahal, "elegida de palacio", de la que estaba profundamente enamorado. Fruto del amor, el edificio es llamado por los indios "Poema de amor en piedra".
La tumba está junto al río Yamuna, en el extremo de un jardín cuádruple o charbagh, sobre una plataforma que comparte con cuatro minaretes y dos edificios gemelos laterales: una mezquita y una hospedería real. El mausoleo sorprende por la pureza de sus proporciones, pues la altura del edificio sin el remate es igual a la longitud de cada uno de los lados.
Situado sobre una terraza de mármol blanco, la construcción de tan magnífico edificio duró unos veinte años, y en ella trabajaron 20.000 obreros en turnos de día y de noche. Todo lujo fue poco. 1.000 elefantes llevaron en sus lomos jade de China, calcedonia de Egipto y perlas de Damasco. En el mármol del zócalo del edificio, se labraron plantas y flores que aluden al paraíso, con incrustaciones de piedras preciosas. Tan exquisito es el trabajo que del Taj-Mahal se ha dicho que fue "diseñado por gigantes y terminado por joyeros".
Dentro del mausoleo reposa el cenotafio de la amada reina, con joyas incrustadas. Magníficamente labrado, el único objeto asimétrico en el edificio es el féretro del emperador, vecino al de la reina, que fue construido posteriormente. Para su desgracia, el emperador había sido depuesto por su hijo y duró ocho años en prisión, desde donde podía amargamente ver su gran obra, el Taj.
Pero lo más sorprendente de este monumento es su luz. Los cambios de la luz del día y las estaciones inciden de una manera prodigiosa en el mármol blanco veteado y translúcido, ofreciendo un abanico de maravillosas tonalidades siempre diferentes, casi como si fuera un milagro.

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  • @zzeynepp18 If I follow your argument, then we Should Consider Borobudur in Indonesia and Angkor Vat in Cambodia as Indian Monuments both being respectively Buddhist and Hindu Temples built during the Indian Expansion in South East Asia during the Classical Period....

    But Borobudur, remains Indonesian and Angkor Vat remains Cambodian just like the Taj Mahal remains Indian....and Hajia Sophia Turkish even if it was built as a Christian Cathedral by the Byzantine Empire...

  • @zzeynepp18 That's Clearly Historical Revisionism

    The Mughal Themselves did not showcase any trace of "Turkishness" and though of Distant Turkish Origins got Completely Indianised

    What we call the "Mughals" is a generic term to describe the ruling administration of that time

    It included the Royal Family of Mixed Ancestry but all the Ministers, Councellors, Clerks, Nawabs and Maharajas were Indians, sometimes Muslims through conversion, others Hindus

    The Taj Itself was built by South Asians

  • @Varoonmg

    Timerid-Timurid are also Turkish names and it is certain that Mughal Emperor was a Turkish empire.They were not persianised but persians ottomanized.In the era of building Tac Mahal , a lot of architechs from Ottoman empire was aslo sent there too.  In Turkey you can find some builgings from Helen people, but Turks never claim that they built them.Timurids were Turks, Shah Jihan was Turk and architecs were Turk.

    So Taj Mahal was built by Turks.

  • @zzeynepp18 Actually the Mughals descend from a Turkish branch called the Timerids that got completely Persianised when going through Central Asia and later settled in Northern India and then got completely Indianised...Most of them married the Indian Nobility, essentially Rajputs to assert their legitimacy on the Imperial Throne...

    Central Asians Architects did contribute to the erection of the monument just like India Architects did, it's a Mughal thus Indian monument not Ottoman one...

  • Mughal Empire was a Turkish Empire built by the Chagatay Turks in India, and Babur, the first Mughal emperor, kept the record of his life in Chagatay Turkish. and also there were a few Turkish architects from Ottoman Empire that helped the project

  • Taj Malal was built by Muslim-Turks altough it is in India.

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