THE JEWEL OF INDIA

If you ask anyone to name the world's most beautiful building, the answer will almost certainly be the Tah Mahal in Agra, the Mogul capital of India.
Built by Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife, the building, which stands 76m high, is a magnificent tomb that looks like a palace. It stands on a marble base and is decorated in flower patterns with precious stones. The Taj is covered with handwritten extracts from the Koran, the Holy book of Islam. Part of the perfection of the building lies in its symmetry, each half being a mirror image of the other.
The Taj Mahal is reflected in the waters of a vast garden crossed by many canals, and houses the tomb of Shah Jahan and his wife, Mumatz Mahal.
The Shah met his wife when he was sixteen years old and she was fifteen. They married four years later. The mother of eight children, she died at the early age of thirty-five, in 1631. It is said that because of his grief, the Mogul Emperor's black hair turned grey within a month. As proof of his love he built this monument which took twenty thousand workers almost twenty years to complete. It was finished in 1652, and in 1658, when Shah Jahan died, he was buried near his wife. Their tombs are beautifully decorated with forty-three different types of jewel.

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