Taj Mahal
About Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.
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The Taj Mahal was built for Shah Jahan's second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and there is a mausoleum for his first wife on the other side of the river, now covered in black mould and cats.
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The Taj Mahal's four minarets are supposedly angled so that if they topple over they fall away from the tomb itself.
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