Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal is an abbreviation of the name of "Mumtaz Mahal", which means the crown shop.  And Mumtaz Mahal, the wife of Emperor Shah Jahan favorite to his heart, and who died in 1631, and her husband built a grave fantastic, so tomorrow and one of the most beautiful buildings completed in the entire world.


Located Taj Mahal in a large garden, outside the city of Agra in north-western India, and sits Taj Mahal ideally central yard and garden and very wide, and it has sidewalks paved with stones malachite, Tansab the canals that bring the water from the river, by a complex network ofreservoirs and pipes under the surface of the earth, which is also feeding water fountains. In the long pond scene reflect the image of this shrine.


Shah Jahan was like precious stones or substance, as he liked to put his own jewelery designs, and worked on decorating and building facades floral drawings and models, using stones like precious stones, crystalline like stone, and stone lapis lazuli, a heavenly blue cameo. The decking beautiful flowers charges is an Islamic tradition, and the symbol for "Kingdom of Heaven", has been decorated some foreign places with Koranic verses written beautifully carved. In the Muslim world is the beauty of calligraphy the highest art. Decorative and these writings have no parallel in any other urban scene of Mughal building.



The first sense Akhalj home to the Taj Mahal is the fascination of the this immortal Islamic building, which changes the color of the outside of the building according to the change incoming sunlight and temperature from white to indigo to violet.

It was the Islamic civilization important influence in the Indian subcontinent, and the Taj Mahal only one of the features of this great civilization, a testament to the greatness of, and contribution to the history of human civilization

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