White Marble Taj Mahal
White marble Taj Mahal taken from the Charbagh gardens
- Image ID 53489247
- Production Year 2020
- Length 00:00:06
- Production Company Travel Penguin
- Resolution
- FormatMP4
Synopsis
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 (r. 1628–1658) to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The Taj Mahal was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.Charbagh, meaning "four gardens", is a Persian and Indo-Persian quadrilateral garden layout based on the four gardens of Paradise mentioned in the Quran.
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