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Taj Mahal - Interesting facts and details like never heard beforeBY: GalUR0ck | Category: Travel | Post Date: 2009-03-14
11th Mar, Wednesday - Holi - festival of colors 04:00 hours - Woke up 05:15 hours - Left for Agra. Being "Holi" - festival of colors, majorly celebrated in Northern region, everyone had advised us to cancel our trip since there might be some problem. 07:40 hours - Reached Agra. Even the Driver was amazed that we managed to reach Agra within 3 hours on a clean, traffic free road. 08:00 hours - We hired a Camel rick for Rs 125 for to and fro the main gate (bargained from Rs 100 one way) and a Guide for Rs 75 (bargained from Rs 275). We were treated like VVIP (Very Very Important People) everywhere coz of limited tourists, deserted highways, deserted restaurants. Our Taj Mahal tour in Agra was one of the superb tour ever done with amazing facts shared by our Guide like: a) There are 4 gate - East, West, North and South gates. Main gate of Taj Mahal has 22 domes. The figure "22" is a very special figure as far as history of Taj Mahal goes. * The Taj Mahal took 22 years to be constructed (1631 to 1653) * 22,000 workers worked on this splendid wonder of the World * Steps in the Taj Mahal are 22 in number * Total cost of construction was Rupees 2.2 million ie 22 lakhs * Shahjahan died on 22nd Jan 1666 b) The fountains are in the centre of the entire premises. The structure on the right of this fountains is exactly the same as that on the left. Except the tomb of Shahjahan beside Mumtaz's tomb (which is again kept in the centre of the White wonder creation. c) There is a mosque built with red stones on the West - left of Taj Mahal. Because of the symmetry logic, there is same structure on the right as well but this could not be called a Mosque (since Mosque is always in West direction) so it was termed as a Guest house. But there can not be a guest house near a tomb and hence this was unused. d) There are 16 Gardens, 8 on the either side of the fountains and 53 fountains in all. This is again co-incidental to the year of completion of construction 1653, amazing!!!! e) One more special feature of these gardens is all 16 of them are in square shape. They are the only one square shaped garden in the entire world. Initially Emperor Shahajahan had planted fruits, vegetables and nuts trees but when it went under the rule of Britishers, they beautified the whole garden. f) The architect who worked on this wonder was from Turkey, an earthquake prone country. So his prime intention was to safe guard this extremely precious creation from any natural disaster. Hence he used Ebony wood, which is most expensive, very strong and shock resistant wood. This wood requires moisture. Hence there are 68 wells under the Taj where the Ebony Wood is floating. Hence also the logic on constructing Taj on the banks of River Yamuna. g) The 4 pillars of the Taj are also strategically constructed in such a way that the front two tilts towards the outer side while the two behind tilts backward. In case if someday they fall, there will be no harm to Taj Mahal. h) The dome on Top of Taj is 30 feet in height i) The doors have Mica Sheets which look like glass or plastic see-through door. This mica sheets help control the room temperature j) It is made in Persian style. Persians consider Fire as God. The door architecture resembles to those in Haz Mecca. It is made of 5 stones since a Muslim performs "Namaaz" 5 times a day k) The White Taj Mahal building took 17 years for its construction since it has real precious stones used in the single carved designs on marble and the gardens, fountains, surrounding red stone buildings were completed in 5 years. l) Emperor Shahajahan immensely loved his wife Mumtaz, when she died he was in the battlefield. He ordered to bury her body till the war was on. After the war, he took her coffin to Taj and cremated her second time on the left of Taj. After the completion of Taj, he took it out and again put her coffin in the basement and created a tomb in the centre of the white wonder. Even the domes in the Taj are in the shape of Diamonds cause they were Mumtaz's favorite m) In the courtship of 18 years, Shahajahan and Mumtaz had 14 children. Out of which 8 had expired and only 6 survived. Out of this 6, 4 were males and 2 girl child. n) Shahajahan was to inherit his empire to his elder son - Murad. When Aurangseb, his second son killed all his brothers and put Shahjahan under imprisonment. Shahajahan's daughter Jahanara Begum Sahib, loved him immensely and did not marry to look after her father. She was with her father throughout his imprisonment period. When he expired she obtained permission from Aurangzeb and kept Shahajahan's coffin in the basement with Mumtaz and created a tomb on the left of Mumtaz's tomb. This is the only asymmetrical aspect in Taj Mahal 10:45 hours - Left Agra. I was extremely happy with the wonderful details provided. This tour's credit fully goes to my Dad who was very confident on the tour while we as usually backed him with full zeal Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: Additional Articles: * Moving to Las Vegas | Real estate market of Vegas * Care of the eye: When to wear eyeglasses * Two dimensions of Nature. Extremity is bad for every aspect of nature. * Teen Pregnancy And How -To Reclaim Your Life * Medical And Non-Medical Causes And Treatment For Hyperhidrosis Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. 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