Taj Mahal Courtyard, Agra, India, 2024

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❖Taj Mahal Courtyard, Agra, India, 2024[open in full screen]

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Taj Mahal is probably the most famous and most photographed structure in India! It wasbuilt atop a 7 meters high and 100 m square platform with corner minarets 42 m tall and 25 m high & 18 m in diameter central inner dome surmounted by an outer shell nearly 60 m in height.

Now a "UNESCO World Heritage Site", the mausoleum built to fulfill a promise he made to his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal as she laid on her deathbed, “To erect a monument to match her beauty”.

The Taj Mahal represents the finest and most sophisticated example of Indo-Islamic architecture. Its origins lie in the moving circumstances of its commission and the culture and history of an Islamic Mughal empire's rule of large parts of India. The distraught Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned the project upon the death of one of his favorite wives Mumtaz Mahal.

Mumtaz died in Burhanpur on 17 June 1631, after complications with the birth of their fourteenth child.

As you can see on the map bellow, we have two VR panoramas from this area. Link #2 will take you to that second location.

Bellow the map are photos taken by Branislav in September 2024. You can also see two of my photos taken on the same spot in 1974 in the row bellow that one.

VR Photographs by dipl. ing. arch. Branislav Kovachevich, Melbourne, Australia,
VR panorama by urbansquares.

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uses & activities	9	religious	x
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