 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan and on this channel you'll find financial travel and more videos if you like what you see Please do the thumbs up and consider subscribing. Thank you Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com today is my day 2 in New Delhi, India And I'm visiting Humayun's tomb and I'll be giving you some history background And I'll show you some places I'll try to explain you some places I'll be visiting within the complex So the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun in New Delhi and this is an awesome display of architectural splendor It was commissioned by Empress Begum, Begum, his first wife and chief consort in 1569 to 70 and this has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993 The complex you're looking at right now is the complex where the temporary workers used to stay because Lots of workers actually were foreign workers at the time and most of them came from the Arabs or they were Arabs. So these places were Housing them temporarily while they were working to make the tomb and right now this Whole complex is going through a massive renovation restructuring to bring in more twist and money So definitely is going to look much better once the whole renovation is done After the Empire Empire Humayun's death in 1556 his wife Begum Begum was so great that she dedicated her life to build the most magnificent Resolume in the Empire and Humayun's son Mughal Emperor Akbar regularly visited the tomb during its construction and Akbar's grandson who is Shah Jahan and this is the guy or this is the Empire who made the Taj Mahal was so Masmerized by the architecture of this tomb, which is his grandfather's tomb and he used many aspects of its design including the double dome of the designing and it's all reflected in the Taj Mahal On the minarets tip or on top of the minarets there were golds and during the British rule they actually removed the gold so now these are gold plated and There's the big dome in the middle although it looks a single-dome architecture, but it actually is a double-dome architecture it's not a single dome and if you can see those windows arched shape windows there are 56 of them and Due to the weather those arched shape windows they actually do air circulation to the dome and that makes the dome very comfortable and cool cooler than outside because in New Delhi or India the temperature can go high like 40 50 60 degrees and that time when this was built there's no electricity, so they had to keep things cool and that's how the huge use the Arch-shaped windows to do the air circulation and air ventilation throughout the dome to keep it cooler The tomb is surrounded by a huge garden. This type of traditional garden was popular in the Mughal dynasty and known as Sharpa the rectangular garden was divided into four squares by center of fountain and The water was actually going from one part or one side of the garden to the other side of the garden Which is far away through these water channels Because that day there was no way to pump in a water because there's no electricity so they had to came up with this unique idea to move water or flow water throughout the garden to keep everything green and so basically from the central middle place water is coming and then going to the other side and Depending on like, you know how the water flow I guess so it's just made the whole place Watered and Keep the water flowing. This is the first structure to use red sandstone with the white marble border linings at such a grand scale It is a rectangular Missolium crowned by an onion-shaped dome which I mentioned before and it looks like very similar to the Taj Mahal But instead it's instead of white marble. The red sandstone Sandstone was used and again, this is the tomb of the Mughal Empire Humayun who's actually the grandfather of the Empire who built the Taj Mahal and his name is So This is my first sightseeing in New Delhi, India If you haven't subscribed yet, please subscribe now because there will be more videos coming up and I'll see you shortly. Thank you