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Several people were sitting on the edges of the pool in the middle of the courtyard which once served multitudes for the ritual wash before prayer.
On this day it appeared near vacant, and largely unused. Only four people were praying in its narrow covered halls.
Its vast courtyard was built with a capacity for 25,000 worshipers. On this day it appeared near vacant, and largely unused.
They were not marked except with inscriptions from the Qur’an, in keeping with strict Islamic customs.
This place which started what remains as the Mughal architectural heritage, ironically also became the scene of the Mughals’ last act. On September 22, 1857, Lieutenant Hodson led British soldiers on a ride through the 14 meter high gate of the enclosure to Humayun’s Tomb to demand the surrender of Bahadur Shah II.
Humayun’s Tomb is the burial place of many more than just Emperor Humayun. It became the “family tomb” for the Mughals. Over a hundred later Mughal kings and their relatives and attendants have been interred here. Among groups of visiting Delhi high school girls and boys in their colorful, blue...
Humayun’s Tomb was the model that culminated in Taj Mahal built by his great grandson, Emperor Shahjahan. I found striking similarities between Humayun’s Tomb and Taj Mahal which I had seen a few days earlier, especially in the shape of the building, it lobbies, its dome, its many rooms, its charbagh, its entry portal, and the “symmetry” because of which one could see the building through...
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