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  2. Indo-Islamic architecture - Wikipedia

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    The so-called Indo-Saracenic architecture, beginning in the late 18th century, but mainly developing from the 1840s until independence a century later, was mostly designed by British or other European architects, and adopted Islamic or specifically Indian features, usually as a decorative skin on buildings whose essential forms reflected ...

  3. Persian Inscriptions on Indian Monuments - Wikipedia

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    Qutub Minar, a prominent example of Islamic architecture in India. Mughal tombs, made from sandstone and marble, emphasise the Persian influence. [ 11 ] Among the architectural achievements of this era are the Red Fort at Agra (1565–74) and the walled city of Fatehpur Sikri (1569–74), as well as the Taj Mahal , which was built as a tomb for ...

  4. Category:Islamic architecture in India - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Indo-Islamic architecture (8 C, 41 P)

  5. Origins and architecture of the Taj Mahal - Wikipedia

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    Mausoleum of the Taj Mahal complex at Agra, India. The Taj Mahal represents the finest and most sophisticated example of Indo-Islamic architecture.Its origins lie in the moving circumstances of its commission and the culture and history of an Islamic Mughal empire's rule of large parts of India.

  6. Islamic architecture - Wikipedia

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    The best known style of Indo-Islamic architecture is Mughal architecture, mostly built between about 1560 and 1720. Early Mughal architecture developed from existing Indo-Islamic architecture but also followed the model of Timurid architecture, due in part to the Timurid ancestry of the Mughal dynasty's founder, Babur.

  7. Category:Indo-Islamic architecture - Wikipedia

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  8. Mahmud Gawan Madrasa - Wikipedia

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    The Madrasa of Mahmud Gawan is a madrasa or Islamic college in Bidar, Karnataka, India. It was built in the 1460s and is an example of the regional style of Indo-Islamic architecture under the Bahmani Sultanate. This heritage structure is placed under the list of monuments of national importance.

  9. Pakistani architecture - Wikipedia

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    The major architectural styles popular in the past were Temple, Indo-Islamic, Mughal and Indo-Saracenic architecture, all of which have many regional varieties. With the beginning of the Indus civilization around the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, [ 1 ] for the first time in the area which encompasses today's Pakistan an advanced urban ...