The Taj Mahal was built on a parcel of land to the south of the walled city of Agra. Shah Jahan presented Maharajah Jai Singh with a large palace in the center of Agra in exchange for the land. An ...
The Taj Mahal was built on a parcel of land to the south of the walled city of Agra. Shah Jahan presented Maharajah Jai Singh with a large palace in the center of Agra in exchange for the land. An area of roughly three acres was excavated, filled with dirt to reduce seepage and leveled at 50 meters above riverbank. In the tomb area, wells were dug and filled with stone and rubble as the footings of the tomb. Instead of lashed bamboo, workmen constructed a colossal brick scaffold that mirrored the tomb. The scaffold was so enormous that foremen estimated it would take years to dismantle. According to the legend, Shah Jahan decreed that anyone could keep the bricks taken from the scaffold and thus was dismantled by peasants overnight. A fifteen kilometer tamped-earth ramp was built to transport marble and materials to the construction site. Teams of twenty or thirty oxen were strained to pull blocks on specially constructed wagons. An elaborate post-and-beam pulley system was used to raise the blocks into desired position. Water was drawn from the river by a series of purs, an animal-powered rope and bucket mechanism into a large storage tank and raised to large distribution tank. It was passed into three subsidiary tanks, from which it was piped to the complex.
The plinth and tomb took roughly 12 years to complete. The remaining parts of the complex took an additional 10 years and were completed in order of minarets, mosque and jawab and gateway. Since the complex was built in stages, discrepancies exist in completion dates due to differing opinions on "completion". For example, the mausoleum itself was essentially complete by 1643, but work continued on the rest of the complex. Estimates of the cost of the construction of Taj Mahal vary due to difficulties in estimating construction costs across time. The total cost of construction has been estimated to be about 32 million Rupees.
The Taj Mahal was constructed using materials from all over India and Asia. Over 1,000 elephants were used to transport building materials during the construction. The translucent white marble was brought from Rajasthan, the jasper from Punjab, jade and crystal from China. The turquoise was from Tibet and the Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, while the sapphire came from Sri Lanka and the carnelian from Arabia. In all, twenty eight types of precious and semi-precious stones were inlaid into the white marble.
A labour force of twenty thousand workers was recruited across northern India. Sculptors from Bukhara, calligraphers from Syria and Persia, inlayer from southern India, stonecutters from Baluchistan, a specialist in building turrets, another who carved only marble flowers were part of the thirty-seven men who formed the creative unit. Some of the builders involved in construction of Taj Mahal are:
The main dome was designed by Ismail Afandi (a.k.a Ismail Khan),of the Ottoman Empire and was considered as a premier designer of hemispheres and domes. Ustad Isa of Persia (Iran) and Isa Muhammad Effendi of Persia (Iran), trained by Koca Mimar Sinan Agha of Ottoman Empire, are frequently credited with a key role in the architectural design, but there is little evidence to support this claim. 'Puru' from Benarus, Persia (Iran) has been mentioned as a supervising architect. Qazim Khan, a native of Lahore, cast the solid gold finial. Chiranjilal, a lapidary from Delhi, was chosen as the chief sculptor and mosaicist. Amanat Khan from Shiraz, Iran was the chief calligrapher. His name has been inscribed at the end of the inscription on the Taj Mahal gateway. Muhammad Hanif was a supervisor of masons and Mir Abdul Karim and Mukkarimat Khan of Shiraz, Iran (Persia) handled finances and management of daily production.
Like to rate videos and let people know what you think?
Automatically share your ratings, favorites, and more on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader with YouTube Autoshare.
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
Like to share videos with friends?
Automatically share your ratings, favorites, and more on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader with YouTube Autoshare.
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
This video has been removed from your Favorites. (Undo)
Like to Favorite videos and let people know what you think?
Automatically share your ratings, favorites, and more on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader with YouTube Autoshare.
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
Taj Mahal built in Muslim era has the influence of Islamic architecture. Since it was built as a marble building naturally large elaborate idols cannot be engraved on soft marble... therefore it contains mostly decorations and symbols.
As per the Sanskrit stone inscriptions excavated in Agra city, two white marble temples were built... Date "Today, the 5th day of the bright half in the month of Ashwin, the Sunday, in the year 1212 of the Vikram Samvat..."
the mughals were the decendants of the army of salahdeen ayubi he bought turk orphan slaves put them in military school(madrasa) they grew up and destroyed the crusaders and the mongols but then they intermarried with mongols just as they went to india and married rajputs
The mughals came from uzbekistan. For fuck sake babur and timur were both turks.Mughal is the persian word for mongol because mongol empire have conquered and rule central asia for centuries.
no mongols came from mongolia and the babur decendant of turk slaves of salahudeen , for fuck sakes i said they were turks his mothers side was from mongol decent
Well duh..you don't say.I don't even know why you mention mongolia.I clearly stated that mughals came from uzbekistan. Mughals are an turkic empire but are also an mixture of mongolian and turkic people.
You are joking,right.The raja raja Cholan temple was built in 900 ad and is far bigger than the Taj mahal.This temple is officially the biggest construction in Indian history.
this all false the free mason are cover the true of this Shiva temple was alrady before of moghul invation, he was a big complex area after remain only the temple and after utily as mausoleum, because the rascal english dasnt want admit the high culture because they were the colony to govern and give civilition but main job of muslim is to destroied not certanly the bilder but true wiil arise of this injustice
Autoshare makes certain YouTube activities public on the services you choose. Select only the services you are comfortable with - like Facebook, Twitter, or Google Reader - to let your friends know what you like on YouTube. You can turn Autoshare off at any time.
Like most significant monuments, Taj Mahal too was built with sacred geometry in a specific geographical spot (ley line).
As per the Sanskrit stone inscriptions excavated in Agra city, two white marble temples were built...
Date
"Today, the 5th day of the bright half in the month of Ashwin, the Sunday, in the year 1212 of the Vikram Samvat..."
A temple for the Lord Teja (Shiva)
For fuck sake babur and timur were both turks.Mughal is the persian word for mongol because mongol empire have conquered and rule central asia for centuries.
Mughals are an turkic empire but are also an mixture of mongolian and turkic people.
and is far bigger than the Taj mahal.This temple is officially the biggest
construction in Indian history.