Question

Look at the picture given below and answer the following questions.

1. Identify the monument.
2. Who built this monument?
3. Where is it located?
4. What are the special features of this monument?

Answer 1

1. The Taj Mahal.
2. Emperor Shah Jahan built it in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
3. It is in India (the city of Agra), on the banks of the Yamuna River.
4. • Made of white marble with fine inlay work of precious stones (pietra dura).
   • Large central dome with four slender minarets at the corners, giving perfect symmetry.
   • Beautiful formal garden and a long reflection pool that mirrors the building.
   • Exquisite calligraphy and carved marble screens (jalis) on the tomb and facades.
   • Built as a mausoleum and took about twenty years to complete; often described as a “dream in marble.”