Henry Saint Clair Fredericks Quotes
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Europeans could not believe that anything so beautiful could have been designed by a non-European. Europeans of the time considered the people of India uncivilized. They recognized that it was a magnificent building. So they thought it couldn’t have been designed by an Indian.
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It is, according to almost every guidebook, the world's 'greatest monument to love.
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Its designers drew inspiration from three related traditions: the architecture of the Mughals' central Asian homeland; the buildings erected by earlier Muslim rulers of India, especially in the Delhi region; and the much older architectural expertise of India itself.
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It is in Agra, a city in India, which was part of the Mughal Empire in the seventeenth century. A Monument To Love, India's Taj Mahal is a beautiful example of a great building feat. With the exception of its gardens, it is exactly as it was designed in 1631.
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One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled 'fog'...The motorist replies: 'What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.'
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Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.
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Shah Jahan, the fifth emperor of the Mughal Empire, commissioned the building of the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his beloved wife.
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We had admired the presidential palace and parliament houses, paused beside the striking India Gate, inspected the 16th Century Humayun's Tomb-a forerunner to the Taj Mahal-and cruised past scores of international embassies.
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Taj has been described as having been designed by giants and finished by jewellers.
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No single person designed the whole Taj Mahal complex. The buildings were the work of many people – architects, engineers, artists, calligraphers, and Shah Jahan himself.