1 Nisan 2013 Pazartesi

TAJ MAHAL & SECRETS (!)


THE TAJ MAHAL IS A SYMBOL OF INDIA.

INDIA IS THE CAPITAL CITY; ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER YAMUNA IN AGRA IN 17. CENTURY, MUMTAZ MAHAL IS THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE  WAS BUILT IN HER HONOR BY THE MUGHAL EMPIRE'S 6. RULER SHAH JAHAN. 


MUMTAZ MAHAL DIED WHILE IS BEARING OF 14.CHILD.
SHAH JAHAN MOURNED AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE FOR TWO YEARS. 
AFTER LOSING INTEREST IN THE AFFAIRS OF STATE; HE FOUND SOLACE IN ART AND ARCHITECTURE.

AFTER A YEAR HIS WIFE'S DEATH;  THE TAJ MAHAL IS LAID IN 1632.
(P.S:IN INDIA IS DOMINATED BY THE BELIEF THAT THE HOLY WOMEN WHO DIED DURING CHILDBIRTH)

THE ARCHITECTS OF THIS CONSTRUCTION ARE MEHMET ISA EFFENDI AND MEHMET ISMAIL EFFENDI, THEY ARE THE MIMAR SINAN'S STUDENTS. THE WRITINGS WAS WRITTEN BY CALLIGRAPHER SERDAR EFFENDI. ARCHITECTS AND CALLIGRAPHER WERE INVITED FROM ISTANBUL BY SHAH JAHAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WORK.


THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TAJ MAHAL BEGAN IN 1632; AFTER 20 YEARS WAS COMPLETED IN 1652.

BRIGHT, THIN BLUE VEINS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TAJ MAHAL IS THE WHITE MARBLE HAS BEEN USED. IT IS MADE OF MARBLE AND 82 METERS THE DOME, BUILT BY THE ARCHITECT ISMAIL EFFENDI. ON THE DOME; IT HAS A GOLDEN ORGY.
 THERE ARE FOUR WHITE MARBLE MAUSOLEUM MINARET.

 




ALL OF THE SURA YASIN WAS WRITTEN TO FOUR SIDES OF THE MONUMENT BY CALLIGRAPHER SERDAR EFFENDI.



     FOR A PERIOD of 20 YEARS IN THE CONSTRUCTION of 20,000 WORKERS
 IN THE BUILDING.


 
ACCORDING TO THE LEGEND; THE ARMS OF THESE WORKERS WERE CUT TO PREVENT ANOTHER ONE FROM THE SAME BUILDING.


TAJ MAHAL'S HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CORNELIAN, PEARL AND TURQUOISE THAT ARE EMBEDDED IN THE WALLS ALSO THERE ARE 42 PIECES OF RUBY, 142 PIECES OF EMERALD, 625 PIECES OF DIAMOND AND 50 PIECES OF VERY LARGE PEARLS.
  





   THE TAJ MAHAL IS LOCATED IN THE RECTANGULAR COURTYARD
MEASURING 305x580 METERS.
33-METER-HIGH MONUMENT SURROUND THE 75-METER-HIGH DOME,
CROWN CROSSINGS.


TOP 30 METERS HIGH, COVERING the BOTTOM of the INTERIOR DOME, the DOME of the SHRINE UNTIL the DEAD VOLUME of the VENUE.


 



MUMTAZ MAHAL AND SHAH JAHAN'S SARCOPHAGUS IS ON THE TOP FLOOR,
UNDER THE DOME.

THE SOUND OF HUMAN MOUTH WHERE ATTESTS TO A 7 TIMES RESOUND ACOUSTICS IN DOME. 



 
 ROMANTIC APPEARANCE CAPTIVATES;
MANY FAMOUS WESTERN-EASTERN WRITER AND POET WHO INSPIRED THE TAJ MAHAL,
MOONLIGHT NIGHTS SEEM TO BE EVEN MORE BRILLIANT.


 


SINCE 1983; THE TAJ MAHAL, A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE.
SWITZERLAND-BASED NEW7WONDERS FOUNDATION WAS ALSO THE FIRST CONTEST ORGANIZED BY SEVENTH TOMB IN THE TAJ MAHAL IN INDIA.



TODAY; OUR ROUTE HAVE ROTATED TO INDIA,
I WISH YOU A DAY FULL OF PLEASURE ;)

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