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When was the THE TAJ MAHAL built?

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When was the THE TAJ MAHAL built?

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The Taj Mahal in Agra, India was built from 1630 to 1653. I have been there before 32 years ago, and it is so beautiful with their special architecture and layout. Still want to go back again one more time. Source(s): Been there and done it.

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between 1631 and 1654 by a workforce of 22,000
The construction of this marble masterpiece is credited to the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan who erected this mausoleum in memory of his beloved wife, Arjumarid Bano Begum; popularly known as Mumtaz Mahal, who died in A.H. 1040 (A.D. 1630).

Her last wish to her husband was "to build a tomb in her memory such as the world had never seen before". Thus emperor Shah Jahan set about building this fairy tale like marvel.

The construction of Taj Mahal was started in A.D. 1632 and completed at the ended in 1648 A.D. For seventeen years, twenty thousand workmen are said to have been employed on it daily, for their accommodation a small town, named after the deceased empress- 'Mumtazabad', now known as Taj Ganj, was built adjacent to it.

Amanat Khan Shirazi was the calligrapher of Taj Mahal, his name occurs at the end of an inscription on one of the gates of the Taj. Poet Ghiyasuddin had designed the verses on the tombstone, while Ismail Khan Afridi of Turkey was the dome maker. Muhammad Hanif was the superintendent of Masons.
The designer of Taj Mahal was Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. The material was brought in from allover India and central Asia and it took a fleet of 1000 elephants to transport it to the site. The central dome is 187 ft. high at the centre.
http://www.etajmahal.com/history-taj-mah...
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interesting fact - all those who worked on it had tehir hands chopped off 'that they may never recreate their work' and the architects were blinded so they too could never draw such a marvel... kind of puts a dampener on the whole romance of the tale.