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were used for decoration. His style was no different banks of the Yamuna
from his previous times, but he certainly added and has a large garden
splendour and beauty to them. He not only to its front. It is
constructed new constructed on a
buildings, but also marble platform and its
rebuilt several buildings central dome is as high
of Akbar’s time, such as as 187 feet. It has four
Diwan-i-aam , Diwan-i- minarets at four Taj Mahal
khas , Machhi Bhavan , corners, each measuring 162 feet. The entire
Shish Mahal , Khas facade is engraved with richly ornamented
Mahal , Anguri Masjid inscriptions from the Quranic text. It has been
etc. at Agra. Shish Mahal aptly described as a dream in marble. It took nearly
22 years for about 20,000 workers to complete it.
Shah Jahan built another Jami Masjid and Red Fort
at Delhi. In Delhi Red Fort, he constructed a large Its chief architect was Ustad Isa while the planner
number of buildings, such as Diwan-i-aam , Diwan-i- of its garden was a Hindu named Ranmal. E.B.
,
,
khas , Moti Mahal Hira Mahal Rang Mahal Nashre- Havell said : “It is a great ideal conception which
,
i-Bahist etc. He also undertook buildings at the belongs more to sculpture than to architecture .”
Lahore Fort. He has to his credit many buildings at F ind Outind Out
Kabul, Ajmer, Qandahar, Kashmir, Ahmedabad and
other places as well. Taj Mahal is called the seventh wonder of the world.
All these buildings are fine specimens of Mughal Find out the names of other wonders of the world.
architecture. The Moti Masjid and the Taj Mahal are Provincial Architecture during Mughal Period
the finest specimens of Shah Jahan’s work.
Architecture in provinces was influenced by Mughal
architecture to a great extent. Some of such
buildings which exist now include Man-Mandir in
Gwalior, Govind Dev Temple in Vrindavan, Hawa
Mahal in Jaipur, Gol Gumbaz in Bijapur and Golden
Temple in Amritsar. One distinct type of
architecture was undertaken by Sawai Raja Jai
Singh of Ambar who built astronomical
Moti Masjid Hira Mahal observatories, called Jantar Mantar , in Delhi ,
,
Jaipur , Mathura Ujjain and Varanasi .

Diwan-i-khas Moti Mahal Gol Gumbaz in Bijapur Hawa Mahal in Jaipur
Moti Masjid : It is built in the Agra Fort and is
built of white marble. It is as beautiful as a pearl.
Taj Mahal : The world gazes at this marvellous
building in amazement which is regarded as one of
the Seven Wonders of the World . This splendour at
Agra was built by Shah Jahan in the memory of his
wife, Mumtaz Mahal . It is built with its back on the
Golden Temple in Amritsar Jantar Mantar in Ujjain
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