Panoramic view of Humayun's Tomb in Delhi
Panoramic view of
Humayun's Tomb in delhi.
Tomb of Humayun is one of the most famous and historically important places in
India. And a magnificent
Mughal architecture.
Humayun's tomb is the tomb of the
Mughal Emperor Humayun in
Delhi, India. The tomb was commissioned by Humayun's first wife
Bega Begum (
Haji Begum) in 1569-70, and designed by Mirak
Mirza Ghiyas, a
Persian architect chosen by Bega Begum. It was the first garden-tomb on the
Indian subcontinent, and is located in
Nizamuddin East, Delhi, India, close to the
Dina-panah citadel also known as
Purana Qila (
Old Fort), that Humayun founded in 1533. It was also the first structure to use red sandstone at such a scale. The tomb was declared a
UNESCO World Heritage Site in
1993, and since then has undergone extensive restoration work, which is complete.
Besides the main tomb enclosure of Humayun, several smaller monuments dot the pathway leading up to it, from the main entrance in the
West, including one that even pre-dates the main tomb itself, by twenty years; it is the tomb complex of
Isa Khan Niyazi, an
Afghan noble in
Sher Shah Suri's court of the
Suri dynasty, who fought against the
Mughals, constructed in 1547 CE.
The complex encompasses the main tomb of the
Emperor Humayun, which houses the graves of Bega Begum herself, Hamida Begum, and also
Dara Shikoh, great great grandson of Humayun and son of the later
Emperor Shah Jahan, as well as numerous other subsequent Mughals, including Emperor
Jahandar Shah,
Farrukhsiyar,
Rafi Ul-Darjat,
Rafi Ud-Daulat and
Alamgir II. It represented a leap in Mughal architecture, and together with its accomplished
Charbagh garden, typical of
Persian gardens, but never seen before in
India, it set a precedent for subsequent Mughal architecture. It is seen as a clear departure from the fairly modest mausoleum of his father, the first Mughal Emperor,
Babur, called
Bagh-e Babur (
Gardens of Babur) in
Kabul (Afghanistan). Though the latter was the first Emperor to start the tradition of being buried in a paradise garden. Modelled on
Gur-e Amir, the tomb of his ancestor and
Asia's conqueror
Timur in
Samarkand, it created a precedent for future Mughal architecture of royal mausolea, which reached its zenith with the
Taj Mahal, at
Agra
Source:
Wikipedia
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