# Shah Jahan builds the Taj Mahal
**शाहजहाँ ने ताजमहल बनवाया**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/taj-mahal/
- Chapter: [The Mughals and their rivals](https://indianepics.online/chapter/mughal.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1632 CE – 1653 CE
- Where: Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh (27.175, 78.042)
- Tags: art, religion

## Summary

Shah Jahan's tomb for Mumtaz Mahal, built over two decades on the Yamuna in white Makrana marble.

यमुना तट पर मकराना के सफ़ेद संगमरमर से बना मुमताज़ महल का मक़बरा, जिसे शाहजहाँ ने दो दशकों में बनवाया।

## Account

Mumtaz Mahal died in childbirth at Burhanpur in 1631, and work on her tomb began in 1632. Shah Jahan held the twelfth anniversary of her death at the finished mausoleum on 6 February 1643, which Koch takes as its official completion; the gateway, mosque, guest house and outer courts took about ten years more.

The empire at its richest: white marble hauled from Makrana in Rajasthan, red sandstone from the Fatehpur Sikri quarries, and semi-precious stones from across Asia cut into the inlay.

## Sources

- Koch, The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra (2006)
- UNESCO World Heritage List: Taj Mahal — https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/252/

## Image

Taj Mahal in March 2004. Dhirad, picture edited by J. A. Knudsen, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATaj_Mahal_in_March_2004.jpg

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