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One of the world's most acclaimed structures, the Taj Mahal celebrates both the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan and Mumtaj mahal, his most loved spouse. Its ideal extents and impeccable craftsmanship have been depicted as a supplication, a dream, a fantasy, a lyric, a ponder. This superb garden tomb, a picture of the Islamic garden of heaven,

Location: Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Built  by Shah Jahan.

Cost: 41 Million  Rupees.

Built: 1632-53

Workers: 20,000

Gold: 500 kilos

Height: 73 M

 Opended: 1648

Taj Mahal complete:  22 years

Components of the Taj Mahal:

The Arch: The 44-m (144-ft) twofold vault is topped with a finial.

Marble Screen: The filigree screen carefully cut from a solitary square of marble was intended to cloak the range around the illustrious tombs.

Four Minarets: Every 40 m (131 ft) high and delegated by a seat, casing the tomb, highlighting the ideal symmetry of complex.

Tomb Chamber: Mumtaj Mahal's cenotaph, raised on a stage is set alongside Shah Jahan's.The real graves in a dull sepulcher beneath are shut to general society.

calligraphic Boards: The measure of the Koranic verses increments as the curve gets higher making the inconspicuous optical hallucination of a consistently streaming script.

The Lotus Pool: Named after its lotus –shaped wellspring gushes, the pool mirrors the tomb.Almost each guest is shot sitting on the marble seat here.

Pishtaq: Recessed curves give profundity while their decorated boards say the changing light to give the tomb a mysterious.

Pietra Dura: The Mughals were incredible naturalists who trusted that blossoms were the "images of the awesome domain". In the Taj , Pietra dura has been broadly used to make an interpretation of naturalistic structures into embellishing designs that supplement the magnificence of its architecture.The Florentine system of Pietra dura is said to have been foreign made by Jahangir and created in Agra as Packard. Minute silvers of valuable and semi-valuable stones, for example, carnelian, lapis lazuli, turquoise and malachite were orchestrated in complex adapted botanical plans into a marble base. Indeed, even today artisans in the old city keep up example books containing the mind boggling themes utilized on the Taj can at present re-make seventeenth century outlines in contemporary pieces.

Cut Alleviation Work: Ornamental boards of blooming plants, foliage and vases are sensibly cut on the lower bits of the walls.While the Pietra dura adds shading to the immaculate white marble these highlight the surface of the cleaned marble and sandstone surface.

Flower showers: Cut in help on the marble and sandstone dado levels are encircled with Pietra dura and stone trim borders.The bounty of botanical themes in Taj symbolizes the focal heaven.

Jaali Designs: On the octagonal performed screen encompassing the cenotaph are an intricate blend of the botanical and geometric. The separated light catches the mind boggling outlines and cast mosaic-like shadows on the tomb.

Calligraphy: Decorated calligraphy in dark marble was utilized as a type of ornamentation on undecorated surfaces.The impeccably point by point boards of engravings of Koranic entry that line the recessed curves like standards were composed by the Persian calligrapher Amanat Khan.