Seven wonders: Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal

  
This is one of the wonder of  the world named TAJMOHOL. Tajmahal is a symbol of love and situated in India.  Shah Jahan the Mughal emperor  built it at Agra in India between 1631 to 1648. It  is also a historic symbol of the jewels of muslim art in India. Shah Jahan built it in a memory of his wife. Though she was his third wife but more favorite. She died in the time of childbirth.                         

     

Taj Mahal is the rare and finest example of mughal architecture. Its a style that combines from Turkish,Persian and Indian architectures. Shah Jahan came to power in 1622 when he seized from his father, while killing his brothers to ensure his claim to rule. He was known as a cruel leader. But he redeemed himself by his generosity to the poor and his friends, by his passion in adorning India with some of its most beautiful architecture, and by his devoting to his wife Momtaz Mahal who was the symbol of  Ornament of  the palace.Shah Jahan married her when he was only 21 years. But in this time he had two children  by an earlier consort. In eighteen years, Mumtaz gave her husband fourteen children. But she died at her final child. When he was 39 years old.

Many architects have rated it as the most perfect of all buildings standing on the earth. Three artists designed it.  they are Persian, Italian and Frenchman. But the design is completely Mohammedan. Even the skilled artisans who built it were brought in from Baghdad, Constantinople, and other centers of the Muslim faith. For  22 years more than 20,000 workers were forced to build Taj Mahal. The Maharaj of Joipur share the marble as a gift to Shah Jahan. In today's currency the building cost more than $200,000,000.The tomb is the central focus of the entire complex of the Taj Mahal. This big, white marble structure stands on a square plinth consists of a symmetrical building with an iwan topped by a big dome and finial. Like most mughal tombs, the basic elements were Persian.  

The Taj Mahal complex is bounded on 3 sides by great walls,with the river facing side left open. Out side the walls are several additional mausoleums ,including those of Shah Jahan's  other wives, and a larger tomb for Mumtaz's favorite servant. These structure's composed primarily of red sandstone, are typical of the smaller Mughal tombs of the era. The garden-facing inner sides of the wall are fronted by columned arcades, a featur typical of Hindu temples which was later incorporated into Mughal Mosque. the wall is interspersed with domed chapattis  and small buildings that may have been viewing areas or which towers like the music house, which is now used as a museum.