What is the Taj Mahal
It impressed the seven wonders of the world, attracted the attention of many, and the destination of many tourists to enjoy this beautiful scenic wonders in nature and its development engineering wonderful. Taj Mahal is one of the seven wonders of these people that come to her from all over the place and towards to see him, what is this place?
Taj Mahal, this charming place is only a definitive guide to the splendor of Islamic architecture, and this place is a shrine and mosque of the greatest and most important mosques in the Muslim valuable world, Hor superb design and decoration and materials used in its construction, has been announcing as one of the Seven Wonders in 1983 from UNESCO Foundation.
Taj Mahal is an acronym for "Mumtaz Mahal", and excellent is the wife of the Emperor "Shah Jahan" loved him, died in 1631 AD They give birth, so the emperor decided to immortalize the memory of his beloved that build her a great mausoleum in beauty. This Marvel is located in the Indian city of Agra in the north-west of the country, which was the capital of the Muslim Mongols at the time.
There is this shrine in a large garden in the yard of the place, its land covered with Bhjar alabaster, and the water comes from the river channels of the underground, and the water pond great place to add more and more splendor and beauty. Emperor Shah Jahan has attracted one of the best men of the arts to the design of this shrine, namely: Professor Issa Persian, and Alabtali Veronao, French and Austin de Bordeaux, was not Hindu Indians any hand in its construction.
The construction of this twenty-two-year-old took the shrine, has worked with more than twenty-two thousand of the workers, the emperor has commissioned more than two hundred and thirty million US dollars worth including in our day. What distinguishes built it covered stones of white marble, and the first half of the building is a mirror of the other half of it, and marble that reflects light at the shrine at dawn, noon, and in the evening reflects the light of the moon, and also distinguishes that the color of the place varies according to time of day and change the four seasons of the year.
Emperor Shah Jahan wanted to build his mausoleum black stone, and linking the tomb and the tomb of his wife, a bridge, but his son, who turned against him and came to power with him to prevent him from it, and sympathy with him that buried in the same tomb of his wife to be this place is proof of the love story Khaleda on Throughout the ages, history, and also, this place is nothing but a masterpiece of Islamic civilization in India. Costume and similar buildings have been designed for this place but they were not the same rank and the beauty of this wonderful place.
Taj Mahal is a mausoleum very magnificence, elegant in Umrah, one of the white marble, there is this shrine in India, built by Mughal Emperor (Shah Jahan), his wife (Mumtaz Mahal) or to include her remains, a woman who wandered in passion, to praise the shrine to include her remains, as a kind of loyalty to his love for her and to commemorate her memory, and the name of the Taj Mahal is derived from the excellent name of the place, built of white marble, and was held at each corner of the minaret inconsistent parts, each revolving Includes three balconies, comes the shrine to rise in the middle of a quadrant, and mediates the building the main dome, and each interface of the four facades high entrance, under the dome there is the tomb of the Princess, and the tomb of her husband by her side.
Shah Jahan felt very sad after the death of his third wife, and that passion to a large degree, during the birth of her fourteenth child, and in honor of her memory began to build the mausoleum, and continued to work in the construction of five years, and after a brief period of the close of business the mausoleum, Shah Jahan take off from the King at the hands of his son (Orr Onkzab), and the sacking him and put him under house arrest near Fort (Agra), and upon the death of Shah buried his son, along with his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, collapsed parts of the building in the nineteenth century, and subjected to distortion during the Indian revolution at the hands of the British in the same time , which followed the Lord (Karzn) Deputy King to order the restoration of the shrine, and return to the previous status.
The shrine of the most important monuments that attract tourists from within India and abroad, and over the months that overcrowding by tourists are the cold months, the Indian government issued a law on preventing traffic from approaching the shrine, to result in the movement of pollution, and it must be on the tourist be up to the palace on foot, or by electric bus to ride.
What distinguishes the palace that were brought building materials that entered the inception of the many countries around the world, such as China and Tibet, and the Arabian Peninsula, and Sri Lanka, and Punjab, and Rajasthan, and the work was entrusted to a number of engineers around the world, were recruited twenty thousand people in the construction process , and artisans from Syria, and Bukhara, Persia and Baluchistan and southern India.
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal or the crown of palaces as known in Hindi is one of the most important buildings, which accounted for Islamic Art in the reign of the kings of the Mughals of India, representing the Taj Mahal mausoleum made of white marble has constructed by King Shah Jahan to be buried where his wife Mumtaz Mahal, and was buried next to her after his death and became a shrine one of the most important Islamic buildings in the world, and in 1983 became a shrine within a UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Site construction
- Taj Mahal is located in the State of India in the state of Uttar Pradesh, which means the Northern Territory in Hindi, and in the city I hate the shrine was built by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
- Construction of the Taj Mahal is the epitome of blending in the Muslim mouth of Persian, Indian and Turkish architecture, where the building consists of entrance topped by a large dome exquisite design Zain top what looked like a lotus flower to give inspiration to rise, with an estimated height of this dome was five and thirty meters, and is surrounded by four smaller domes similar Home of the dome in shape and design, as the minarets of the shrine was built about forty meters high designed to ones already proclaimed to prayer.
- Adorn the crown of Indian architectural motifs made of pure gold shop, but in the nineteenth century in the period of British occupation has been replaced by a copy of the bronze plated with gold.
- Garden in front of the shrine area was set up about three hundred square meters called the Mughal Garden, divided lanes that garden to sixteen kindergarten, and agricultural basin, water tank and put marble in the middle of the garden, and pond reflected the image of the shrine.
- Some cracks appeared in parts of the shrine in 2010, along with some tendency in the minarets that surround it, and the river water shortage Yamuna raised fears about the safety of the grave to increase drought rate to five feet per year, which led to rot in the foundations of wooden graves .
- The Indian government has a number of measures to ensure the safety of the Taj Mahal, which prevent the establishment of facilities made emissions of polluting or cars passing in ten thousand and four hundred scope of square kilometers around the shrine, and the Supreme Court of India has opposed the establishment of oil refinery on the river Yamuna due to acid rain risk.
- In periods of wars, especially the Indo-Pakistan wars the Indian armed forces had set up bridges and training strategy in order to protect the shrine from air attacks.
- Despite the precautions and procedures that are taken from the Indian government, however, the shrine is threatened with collapse due to increased greenhouse gas emissions and drought and soil pollution around him.



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