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Activity

Gather pictures of monuments during the medieval period and paste them in your scrapbook.

v The mixture of Hindu architecture and Muslim architecture is called Indo-Islamic architecture.
v Some of the important buildings of the Delhi Sultanate period include Qutb Minar, Adhai Din ka Jhonpra
and Alai Darwaza.
v The important provincial architecture during the Delhi Sultanate period include the Atala Masjid, Mandu
Fort, Jami Masjid at Bidar, Kirti Stambha and many gopurams in the south.
v The architecture during the Mughal period is called Mughal architecture which is a fine mixture of Islamic
style of Central Asia and Hindu style of India.
v Some of the important buildings of the Mughal period include a number of buildings at Agra, Delhi, Ajmer,
Fatehpur Sikri, Sasaram etc. The most splendid building of the Mughal period is the Taj Mahal built by Shah
Jahan.
v The provincial architecture during the Mughal period includes the Gol Gumbaj in Bijapur, Govind Dev
Temple in Vrindavan and Golden Temple in Amritsar.

A. Tick (3) the right option :
1. The Adhai Din ka Jhonpra was built by ______________ .
(a) Qutb-ud-din Aibak (b) Iltutmish (c) none of them
2. The Jahaz Mahal is located in ______________ .
(a) Jaunpur (b) Malwa (c) Bijapur
3. A gopuram in a temple in India is its ______________ .
(a) prayer hall (b) gateway (c) none of these
4. The architecture during the Mughal period is called ______________ architecture.
(a) Mughal (b) Indo-Islamic (c) Islamic
5. The Purana Qila in Delhi was built by ______________ .
(a) Sher Shah Suri (b) Shah Jahan (c) none of them
6. The Taj Mahal was built in the memory of ______________ .
(a) Nur Jahan (b) Jodhabai (c) Mumtaz Mahal
7. The Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque is located in ______________ .
(a) Ajmer (b) Delhi (c) Agra
8. ______________ is regarded as one of the seven wonders of the world.
(a) Taj Mahal (b) Hawa Mahal (c) Red Fort

B. Write who built these buildings :
1. Qutb Minar : ______________ 2. Kirti Stambha : ______________
3. Siri Fort : ______________ 4. Moti Masjid at Agra : ______________
5. Atala Masjid : ______________ 6. Jantar Mantar : ______________
The Medieval Architecture
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