Taj Mahal
Landmark
A white marble tomb an emperor built for the wife he loved.
The Taj Mahal stands by the Yamuna river in the city of Agra. Emperor Shah Jahan had it built for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631.
Building began in 1632 and about 20,000 people worked on it for some twenty years. The white marble is inlaid with thousands of coloured stones in the shape of flowers.
- building began
- 1632
- workers
- 20,000
- high
- 73 m
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The marble seems to change colour through the day: pink at sunrise, white at noon, golden at sunset.
- 2
The building is perfectly symmetrical: the left half is a mirror image of the right.
- 3
It is said that more than a thousand elephants carried the building materials.
Question 1 of 2
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