Top 10 Amazing Facts about Tajmahal
- The Taj Mahal was Shah Jahan’s imagination of Mumtaz’s home in paradise
- The Taj Mahal (73m) is taller than Qutub minar (72.5m).
- Taj Mahal attracts 2-4 million visitors annually with over 200,000 from overseas.
- Estimated cost of Taj at the time to be around 32 million Indian rupees, which in 2015 would be valued at around 52.8 billion Indian rupees ($827 million US)
- Emperor Shah Jahan had planned to construct another Taj Mahal in black marble on the other side of the river but the war with his sons interrupted his plans.
- On the sides of the actual tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, 99 names of Allah can be found as calligraphic inscriptions.
- At different times of the day the Taj Mahal appears to be in a different colour. Some believe that these changing colours depict the changing moods of a woman.
- The ASI had to conceal the Taj during WW-II with a huge scaffold to misguide bombers.
- The four minarets of the Taj Mahal have been constructed slightly outside of the plinth so that in case the minarets fell, they would fall away and not on the main structure.
- An American Grammy Award-winning artist (Henry Saint Clair Fredericks) named himself Taj mahal.
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