White Marble Mausoleum

by Maria Coulson

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White Marble Mausoleum

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Maria Coulson

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Photograph - Digital Art, Fine Art Phototgraphy

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The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The tomb is the centerpiece of a 17-hectare complex, which includes a mosque and a guesthouse, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.
Construction of the mausoleum was essentially completed in 1643 but work continued on other phases of the project for another 10 years. The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in its entirety in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be around 32 million rupees, which in 2015 would be approximately 52.8 billion rupees (U.S. $827 million). The construction project employed 20,000 artisans.

Featured in the following Fine Art America Groups:
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Proceeds from the sale of this photograph goes to help orphaned and abandoned children in Colombia South America.

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July 9th, 2018

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