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Pages in category "Buildings and structures of the Mughal Empire" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Mughal gardens are gardens built by the Mughals in the Islamic style. This style was influenced by Persian gardens. They are built in the char bagh structure, which is a quadrilateral garden layout based on the four gardens of Paradise mentioned in the Qur'an. This style is intended to create a representation of an earthly utopia in which ...
Mughal tombs are a set of tombs built by various ruling in Mughal Emperors. All of them have marked influence from Iranian Timurid forms. The Mughal dynasty was established after the victory of Babur at Panipat in 1526. During his five-year reign, Babur took considerable interest in erecting buildings, though few have survived.
Throughout his reign, Shah Jahan is suspected to have built thirty-five palaces and gardens, with twenty-four still in existence. [4] Due to the scale of construction, Shah Jahan period architecture is a valuable source for understanding the development of Islamic architecture throughout the 17th century .
The best known example of Mughal architecture is the Taj Mahal. It was built as a mausoleum for Mumtaz Mahal, the wife of Shah Jahan, who died in 1631. The main ideas and themes of garden tombs had already been explored by earlier Mughal emperors, and this was the culmination of all those previous works into a national landmark.
The main building was built in 1527. Emperor Babur of the Timurid dynasty defeated Sultan Ibrahim Lodhi in the first Battle of Panipat in 1526 at Panipat. [2] [5] It was the first conquest of the Mughals over Hindustan. [6] A descendant of Tamerlane, Taimur Lung, built this monument as a show of victory of the Mughals over the Pathan rulers of ...
Texas A&M University Press, 2006. Howard N. Martin: Fort Teran from the Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 4 February 2010. Marler, Don. Fort Terán on the Neches River. Dogwood Press, 2000. Marler, Don. "Ft. Teran Site Visit July 1998 Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine." Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas website. Retrieved: 4 February 2010.
Buildings and structures of the Mughal Empire (7 C, 20 P) E. Mughal architecture elements (15 P) F. Fatehpur Sikri (13 P) W. Walled City of Lahore (2 C, 29 P)