It has been over three hundred years
since Emperor Shah Jahan of Delhi built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife in
Agra. Architecturally, it is still
one of the most beautiful buildings
in the world. The building is made of fine white marble with inlays of coloured
sandstone. Four slender white towers rise
from the corners of the terrace. There is a large dome above the centre of the building. Around the large
dome there are four smaller domes. just inside the outer walls, there is an
open corridor from which visitors can look through carved marble screens into a
central room. The bodies of Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz lie in two graves
below this room. The Taj Mahal is surrounded by a beautiful garden and there is
a long pool that stretches out in front of the building. One can see the beauty
of the Taj Mahal in its reflection in the pool water. Visitors come to see this
wonderful building at different times of
the day since it assumes a different look at different times. Most people like
it best on moonlit nights.
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