Taj Mahal

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Taj Mahal

***** Location: India
***** Season: Topic
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, that was built under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

The Taj Mahal (also "the Taj") is considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Persian, Turkish, Indian, and Islamic architectural styles. In 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and was cited as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage."

While the white domed marble mausoleum is most familiar, Taj Mahal is an integrated complex of structures that was completed around 1648. Ustad Ahmad Lahauri is generally considered as the principal designer of Taj Mahal.



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Yet one solitary tear
Would hang on the cheek of time
In the form
Of this white and gleaming Taj Mahal

Rabindranath Tagore


This poet dreams of walking in a midnight garden, where poems are pearls draped upon bushes and hanging from exotic trees.
-Where dreams are Faeries' Fire and pears belong to the fruit of all possibility.

Princess Haiku


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Taj Mahal close-up -
lotus flowers in marble,
resting love.

Beate Conrad
December 2007, Waterford, Michigan, USA


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　©　Norman Darlington


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at the Taj
a realist, an impressionist
a surreal upside down Mahal

in the breeze
... the Taj graces us a dance
upside down

sunset taj mahal
feebleness
of a fairy tale

John Tiong Chunghoo
John on facebook



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