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The Taj Mahal was commissioned by Shah Jahan in 1631, to be built in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died on 17 June that year while giving birth to their 14th child, Gauhara Begum. [10] [11] Construction started in 1632, and the mausoleum was completed in 1648, while the surrounding buildings and garden were finished five years later ...
Shah Jahan had not intended to entomb another person in the Taj Mahal; [62] however, Aurangzeb had Shah Jahan buried next to the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal rather than build a separate tomb for his father. [63] [64] This is evident from the asymmetrical placement of Shah Jahan's grave on one side of his wife's grave which is in the centre. [65] [66]
The Taj Mahal, the burial place of Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal Mumtaz Mahal died at the young age of 38 (7 June 1631), upon giving birth to Princess Gauhar Ara Begum in the city of Burhanpur , Deccan of a postpartum haemorrhage , which caused considerable blood-loss after painful labor of thirty hours. [ 32 ]
The Taj Mahal is located outside of Agra and is the centre feature of a broader complex of buildings. [4] The Taj is a mausoleum for Shah Jahan's favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The broader complex includes the residential garden, the mosque, Mihman Khana (assembly hall), the wall towers, pool and garden wall pavilions. [14]
In honor of his coronation, on 6 February 1628, [18] Shah Jahan awarded his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, Jahanara's mother, the title of Padshah Begum and 200,000 ashrafis (Persian gold coins worth two Mohurs), 600,000 rupees and an annual privy purse of one million rupees. Moreover, Shah Jahan presented Mumtaz with jewels worth five million rupees.
Manavati Bai, also spelled Manvati Bai, (13 May 1573 – 8 April 1619), better known by her title, Jagat Gosain (lit. ' Saint of the World '), was the second wife and the empress consort of the fourth Mughal emperor Jahangir and the mother of his successor, Shah Jahan.
The Black Taj Mahal is a legendary black marble mausoleum that is said to have been planned to be built across the Yamuna River opposite the Taj Mahal. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan is said to have desired a mausoleum for himself exactly to that of the one he had built in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal, but built entirely out of black marble.
The Fatehpuri Masjid was built in 1650 by Fatehpuri Begum, one of wives of Emperor Shah Jahan, who was from Fatehpur Sikri, [2] and the mosque at Taj Mahal is also named after her. [ 3 ] The British auctioned the mosque after the 1857 war to Rai Lala Chunnamal for Rs. 19,000 [ 4 ] (whose descendants still live in the Chunnamal haveli in Chandni ...