Taj Mahal

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Size of Taj Mahal

55 acres

Taj Mahal (location)

Agra, India; Yamuna River

Rambagh

Agra, east bank of Yamuna River

Reason for no dismantlement of Taj Mahal

Ain't nobody got no money

Love

Appealing quality of Taj Mahal

Dado frieze

Continuous pattern (in Taj Mahal, flowering plants in low relief)

Taj Mahal

Crown of the Palaces

Proportion

Demonstrated in Mughal architecture

Mir Abdul Karim

Did earlier project for Jahangir

Hasht Bihisht

Eight Paradises

East building

Jawab (answer), only for balance

West building

Mosque

Notable buildings

Mosque of Wazir Khan (Lahore); Red Fort (Delhi); Pearl Mosque (Delhi)

Tomb tower

Most popular Islamic burial form

Corbeled double dome

Most prominent visual element of Taj Mahal

Perfection of exterior

No real means to ascend the structure

Gardens (manifestation)

Paradise on the Day of Judgement

Characteristics of Shahjahan

Quaran calligraphy; beautiful singing voice; guapo; knew architecture well

Smaller domes

Similar decorative floral relief carving; support and foil for the main focus of the Taj Mahal

Delicacy and Pleasure

Sought after in Mughal architecture

Tomb (manifestation)

Throne of God

1631-1647

Time to complete Tan Mahal

Love and grief

Two main things Taj Mahal is for

Shopkeepers

Upper class women

3 architects

Ustad Amad; Mir Abdul Karim; Mulla Murshid Shirazi

Cream-Colored Marble Veneer

Visible from a distance; change of color during the day (yeller, bright white, blue)

60000

Visitors per week

Royal Meena Bazaar

Where Prince Khurram and Arjumand Banu Begam met

One end of garden, riverbank

Where tomb is in Taj Mahal

Center of garden

Where tomb normally was

Mumtaz Mahal

"Chosen One of the Palace"

Diamond

10000 rupees, how Prince Khurram and Arjumand Banu Begam met

Death of Mumtaz Mahal

1631; childbirth

Taj Mahal (structure)

Based of a garden pleasure pavilion, white marble, octagonal basis

Babur

Began architectural sponsorship; walled grounds filled with pools, fountains, running water courses

Site of Muhammad's death

Below the floor of a room in his house

Names for Taj Mahal in shajahan's time

Building of the illuminated tomb; the holy tomb; building of the pure tomb

Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik

Built Mosque of the Prophet

Tomb tower (structure)

Cylinder capped with conical roof

Shajahan's Coronation

February 4, 1628

Procession

Feeling evoked by long view of Taj Mahal

Quandari Begam

First wife of Prince Khurram

Humayun

Grand tomb (Delhi); Fort at Agra; Great Mosque (Fatephur Sikri)

Mulla Murshid Shirazi

Helped build later Mughal palaces in Delhi

Post and lintel

How early mughal buildings were made

Wedding day

March 27, 1612


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