Taj Mahal
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