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Taj Mahal India


The Taj Mahal is regarded as the most beautiful creation of Muslim architecture in India. The great mausoleum was built by the fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife, the Persian Princess Arjuman Bano Begum, who was also called Mumtaz Mahal. She had a great influence on his life and politics and died in 1631 giving birth to their fourteenth child at the age of 39 years. On her deathbed she wanted from your man a tomb, as it has never seen the world. Then let the Mughal emperor built the Taj Mahal, which seems to come from a fairy tale or a dream.

The correct name of the Taj Mahal is not recorded. Translated, the name Crown Palace or the crown of the palace and it is believed that so also was called the princess. The Taj was built time from 1631 to about 1648th Although the exact year of completion is unknown and different sources show earlier years, was officially carried out in 2004 in Agra by the state government of Uttar Pradesh 350 year celebrations. Due to severe environmental pollution of marble has begun easy to assume yellow color, after all car and bus traffic was banned within two kilometers of since the beginning of 2007. Tourists are now made ​​with horse-drawn carriages and battery-powered vehicles to the Taj Mahal.

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